encode64: Base64 encoding and decoding
Description
Base64 encoding. By default uses the RFC 4648 dialect (file/url
encoding) where characters 62 and 63 are "-" and "_". Pass in "+"
and "/" to get the RFC 1421 variant (as in other R packages that
do base64 encoding).
Usage
encode64(x, char62 = "-", char63 = "_", pad = TRUE)decode64(x, char62 = "-", char63 = "_", error = TRUE)
Arguments
x
A string or vector of strings to encode/decode
char62
Character to use for the 62nd index
char63
Character to use for the 63rd index
pad
Logical, indicating if strings should be padded with
=
characters (as RFC 4648 requires)
error
Throw an error if the decoding fails. If
FALSE
then NA_character_
values are returned for
failures.
Examples
Run this code# NOT RUN {
x <- encode64("hello")
x
decode64(x)
# Encoding things into filename-safe strings is the reason for
# this function:
encode64("unlikely/to be @ valid filename")
# }
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