A cleaning function for special characters

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

Usage

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$"