base64
Encode or Decode a String Using Base64
Description
Encodes or decodes a character string or raw vector to or from Base64 encoding.
Usage
base64encode(object, newlines=FALSE)
base64decode(encoded)
Arguments
| object |
a character string or raw vector containing the content to encode.
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| newlines |
a logical value. If TRUE, encoded content is wrapped with a new line character after 76 characters in a line.
The default is FALSE.
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| encoded |
a character string containing the content to decode.
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Value
| base64encode | returns a character string containing the encoded version of object. |
| base64decode | returns a raw vector containing the decoded version of encoded. |
References
Examples
original <- readLines(system.file(package="terrUtils", "DESCRIPTION"))
encoded <- base64encode(original)
decoded <- rawToChar(base64decode(encoded))