[R] Handling of special characters by xtable

[Uwe Ligges]

Y Tao wrote:

> It seems that xtable does not escape special characters such as % (which indicates a comment line in LaTeX).
>

Please send your feature request (probably with R code contribution) to 
the package maintainer, David Dahl (in CC).

Uwe Ligges


> Try these few lines for example:
> 
>>library(xtable)
>>q<-data.frame(quantile(rnorm(100)))
>>xtable(q)
> 
>  
> This produces:
> 
> % latex table generated in R 1.9.1 by xtable 1.2-3 package
> % Sat Aug 28 16:11:05 2004
> \begin{table}[ht]
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{rr}
> \hline
>  & quantile.rnorm.100.. \\
> \hline
> 0% & $-$2.02 \\
> 25% & $-$0.70 \\
> 50% & $-$0.16 \\
> 75% & 0.54 \\
> 100% & 2.16 \\
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
> \end{table}
> 
> 
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