Protect control characters in a string for use in a latex table or caption

escape takes a vector of chracter values, and puts "\" in front of them to make them allowable in the latex table output

Usage

escape(x)

Arguments

x

character vector of test containing values that need to be latex escaped

Value

character Vector of transformed values for table output

Examples

value_example <- c("testvalue", "test_value", "ampersand&")
escape(value_example)
#> [1] "testvalue"    "test\\_value" "ampersand\\&"
escape("String_Entry %")
#> [1] "String\\_Entry \\%"