A cleaning function for special characters

This function is a helper for cleaning xtable outputs in preperation for PDF production

sanitise(str)

Arguments

str	The text to be sanitised

See also

Other helper: CJ.dt, convertToXML, generatePDF, pounds_format, thousands_format, wordwrap

Examples

sanitise('[&%#<>\\')
#> [1] "{}[\\&\\%\\#$<$$>$$\\backslash$"