Long Numbers As A Character String

Question

As part of my dataset, one of the columns is a series of 24-digit numbers.

Example:

bigonumber <- 429382748394831049284934

When

Answer 1

Use digest::digest on bigonumber to generate an md5 hash of the number yourself?

bigonumber <- 429382748394831049284934
hash_big <- digest::digest(bigonumber)
hash_big
# "e47e7d8a9e1b7d74af6a492bf4f27193"