R: Encode and Decode base64

encode {base64}

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Encode and Decode base64

Description

Wraps openssl::base64_encode to replace the deprecated implementation by Romain Francois.

Usage

encode(input, output = tempfile(), linebreaks = TRUE)

decode(input, output = tempfile())

Arguments

`input`	input file
`output`	output file
`linebreaks`	insert linebreaks to make output human readable See `openssl::base64_encode`

Examples

# encode a file
myfile <- R.home("COPYING")
tmp <- tempfile()
base64::encode(myfile, tmp)

# decode it back
orig <- tempfile()
base64::decode(tmp, orig)
readLines(orig)

[Package base64 version 2.0 Index]