xfun (version 0.48)

base64_uri: Generate the Data URI for a file

Description

Encode the file in the base64 encoding, and add the media type. The data URI can be used to embed data in HTML documents, e.g., in the src attribute of the <img /> tag.

Usage

base64_uri(x, type = mime_type(x))

Value

A string of the form data:<media type>;base64,<data>.

Arguments

x

A file path.

type

The MIME type of the file, e.g., "image/png" for a PNG image file.

Examples

logo = xfun:::R_logo()
img = xfun::html_tag("img", src = xfun::base64_uri(logo), alt = "R logo")
if (interactive()) xfun::html_view(img)