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BLE-LTER / BLEdatatools

R package to download and collate BLE LTER data from EDI repository
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Feature Idea: Generate data column with unique ID #12

Open akshoelace opened 2 years ago

akshoelace commented 2 years ago

Generate a column providing a unique ID string, such as "EWLD1_2021_UI_top" for ELWD1, 2019, under ice season, top of the water column. This ID will serve as an identifying string, and a basis for table joins to other datasets and other data manipulations. Despite being dynamically generated each time the data output is generated, the ID string needs to be stable: the row "EWLD1_2021_UI_top" needs to be exactly that string from year to year.

alinaCO2spera commented 2 years ago

Do we want to include "date" in this? I will try different combinations to make these actually unique!