R: Base64 Encode / Decode

base64enc

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Base64 Encode / Decode

Description

Encodes / decodes a character string or arbitrary R object to base64 encoding.

Usage

base64enc(x, convert = TRUE)

base64dec(x, convert = TRUE)

Arguments

`x`	an object.
`convert`	For base64enc: [default TRUE] logical TRUE to encode to a character string or FALSE to a raw vector. For base64dec: [default TRUE] logical TRUE to convert back to a character string, FALSE to convert back to a raw vector or NA to decode and then unserialize back to the original object.

Details

For encoding: a scalar string or raw vector (with no attributes) is encoded directly, whilst all other objects are first serialised (using R serialisation version 3, big-endian representation).

For decoding: the value of 'convert' should be set to TRUE, FALSE or NA to be the analogue of the above 3 cases in order to return the original object.

Value

For base64enc: A character string or raw vector depending on the value of 'convert'.

For base64dec: A character string, raw vector, or other object depending on the value of 'convert'.

Examples

base64enc("hello world!")
base64dec(base64enc("hello world!"))

base64enc(as.raw(c(1L, 2L, 4L)), convert = FALSE)
base64dec(base64enc(as.raw(c(1L, 2L, 4L))), convert = FALSE)

base64enc(data.frame())
base64dec(base64enc(data.frame()), convert = NA)