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How to base 64 encode a dataframe in r

As an example lets take df <- head(iris). How would I encode this into a base64 string. I need it for the GitHub API content argument.

At the moment I have been trying to use the base64encode() function but get the "error in normalizePath".

Solution

  • Specifically for the GitHub API after some research the following code worked perfectly as it was able to decode and move the table to Github:

    df1<-charToRaw(paste(capture.output(write.table(Table, quote=FALSE, row.names=FALSE , sep=",")), collapse="\n")) 

base64_code<-base64enc::base64encode(df1)

    This was able to be placed in the content argument of the rest API to update the file.