openssl (version 1.4.4)

base64_encode: Encode and decode base64

Description

Encode and decode binary data into a base64 string. Character vectors are automatically collapsed into a single string.

Usage

base64_encode(bin, linebreaks = FALSE)
base64_decode(text)

Arguments

bin

raw or character vector with data to encode into base64

linebreaks

insert linebreaks in the base64 message to make it more readable

text

string with base64 data to decode

Examples

# NOT RUN {
input <- charToRaw("foo = bar + 5")
message <- base64_encode(input)
output <- base64_decode(message)
identical(output, input)
# }