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February 6, 2015 20:33
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Sometimes you just want to send a report to someone as a single HTML file (e.g. when PDF isn't an option) and you want to avoid the hassle of external images. This code lets you convert a plot in R into base64 string that you can include in the HTML source.
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| library(base64) # install.packages('base64') | |
| pngfile <- tempfile() | |
| png(pngfile,width=600,height=600,pointsize=12) # adjust as needed | |
| # Plotting code... | |
| dev.off() | |
| # Prints the HTML code to console | |
| cat(img(pngfile)) | |
| # Copy and paste the whole output into your HTML source to embed the image | |
| unlink(pngfile) # clean up |
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