I think a machine-specific input, like the MAC address, to the UUID is
essential. S+ used to make a seed for the random number generator based on
the the current time and process ID. A customer complained that all
machines in his cluster generated the same random number stream. The
machines were
# Proposal
Provide a built-in mechanism for obtaining an identifier for the
current R session, e.g.
> Sys.info()[["session_uuid"]]
[1] "4258db4d-d4fb-46b3-a214-8c762b99a443"
The identifier should be "unique" in the sense that the probability
for two R sessions(*) having the same identifier shoul
