encodeListColumns: Encode list-columns in a dataframe as character using base64...
In talegari/sidekicks: A Misc Set of Functions for Data Analysis

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Encoded columns are detected, encoded with base64 and column names are appended with "__encoded" so that the decoder knows it. Other columns are not transformed

1	encodeListColumns(df)

df

dataframe

This is helpful in writing dataframes with list-columns to disk as delimited formats and read them back

A dataframe where list-columns are encoded using base64 and those column names are appended by "__encoded"

library("magrittr")
trialDF <- tibble::tibble(x = 1:10
                          , y = c(list(list(iris)), as.list(2:10))
                          )
trialDF
trialDF %>% encodeListColumns()
trialDF %>% encodeListColumns() %>% decodeListColumns()