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image_uri

Encode an image file to a data URI

Description

This function is the same as xfun::base64_uri() (only with a different function name). It can encode an image file as a base64 string, which can be used in the img tag in HTML.

Usage

image_uri(f)

Arguments

`f`	Path to the image file.

Value

The data URI as a character string.

Author(s)

Wush Wu and Yihui Xie

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

Examples

uri = image_uri(file.path(R.home("doc"), "html", "logo.jpg"))
if (interactive()) {
    cat(sprintf("<img src=\"%s\" />", uri), file = "logo.html")
    browseURL("logo.html")  # you can check its HTML source
}

knitr

A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R

v1.33

GPL

Authors

Yihui Xie [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-5666>), Abhraneel Sarma [ctb], Adam Vogt [ctb], Alastair Andrew [ctb], Alex Zvoleff [ctb], Andre Simon [ctb] (the CSS files under inst/themes/ were derived from the Highlight package http://www.andre-simon.de), Aron Atkins [ctb], Aaron Wolen [ctb], Ashley Manton [ctb], Atsushi Yasumoto [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8335-495X>), Ben Baumer [ctb], Brian Diggs [ctb], Brian Zhang [ctb], Bulat Yapparov [ctb], Cassio Pereira [ctb], Christophe Dervieux [ctb], David Hall [ctb], David Hugh-Jones [ctb], David Robinson [ctb], Doug Hemken [ctb], Duncan Murdoch [ctb], Elio Campitelli [ctb], Ellis Hughes [ctb], Emily Riederer [ctb], Fabian Hirschmann [ctb], Fitch Simeon [ctb], Forest Fang [ctb], Frank E Harrell Jr [ctb] (the Sweavel package at inst/misc/Sweavel.sty), Garrick Aden-Buie [ctb], Gregoire Detrez [ctb], Hadley Wickham [ctb], Hao Zhu [ctb], Heewon Jeon [ctb], Henrik Bengtsson [ctb], Hiroaki Yutani [ctb], Ian Lyttle [ctb], Hodges Daniel [ctb], Jake Burkhead [ctb], James Manton [ctb], Jared Lander [ctb], Jason Punyon [ctb], Javier Luraschi [ctb], Jeff Arnold [ctb], Jenny Bryan [ctb], Jeremy Ashkenas [ctb, cph] (the CSS file at inst/misc/docco-classic.css), Jeremy Stephens [ctb], Jim Hester [ctb], Joe Cheng [ctb], Johannes Ranke [ctb], John Honaker [ctb], John Muschelli [ctb], Jonathan Keane [ctb], JJ Allaire [ctb], Johan Toloe [ctb], Jonathan Sidi [ctb], Joseph Larmarange [ctb], Julien Barnier [ctb], Kaiyin Zhong [ctb], Kamil Slowikowski [ctb], Karl Forner [ctb], Kevin K. Smith [ctb], Kirill Mueller [ctb], Kohske Takahashi [ctb], Lorenz Walthert [ctb], Lucas Gallindo [ctb], Marius Hofert [ctb], Martin Modrák [ctb], Michael Chirico [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Michal Bojanowski [ctb], Michel Kuhlmann [ctb], Miller Patrick [ctb], Nacho Caballero [ctb], Nick Salkowski [ctb], Niels Richard Hansen [ctb], Noam Ross [ctb], Obada Mahdi [ctb], Pavel N. Krivitsky [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-3362>), Qiang Li [ctb], Ramnath Vaidyanathan [ctb], Richard Cotton [ctb], Robert Krzyzanowski [ctb], Romain Francois [ctb], Ruaridh Williamson [ctb], Scott Kostyshak [ctb], Sebastian Meyer [ctb], Sietse Brouwer [ctb], Simon de Bernard [ctb], Sylvain Rousseau [ctb], Taiyun Wei [ctb], Thibaut Assus [ctb], Thibaut Lamadon [ctb], Thomas Leeper [ctb], Tim Mastny [ctb], Tom Torsney-Weir [ctb], Trevor Davis [ctb], Viktoras Veitas [ctb], Weicheng Zhu [ctb], Wush Wu [ctb], Zachary Foster [ctb]

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