json64 - A 'Base64' Encode/Decode Package with Support for JSON
Output/Input and UTF-8
Encode/Decode 'base64', with support for JSON format,
using two main functions: j_encode() and j_decode(). 'Base64'
is a group of similar binary-to-text encoding schemes that
represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating
it into a radix-64 representation, used when there is a need to
encode binary data that needs to be stored and transferred over
media that are designed to deal with textual data, ensuring
that the data will remain intact and without modification
during transport.
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowBase64/Base64_encoding_and_decoding>
On the other side, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a
lightweight data-interchange format. Easy to read, write, parse
and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript
Programming Language. JSON is a text format that is completely
language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to
programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#,
Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. JSON structure
is built around name:value pairs and ordered list of values.
<https://www.json.org> The first function, j_encode(), let you
transform a data.frame or list to a 'base64' encoded JSON (or
JSON string). The j_decode() function takes a 'base64' string
(could be an encoded JSON) and transform it to a data.frame (or
list, depending of the JSON structure). The package also
contains a function, j_save(), to write data to a file using
UTF-8 encoding.
