escape LaTeX special characters

[flying-sheep]

we have to do this:

char	macro
#	\#
$	\$
%	\%
&	\&
\	\textbackslash{}
^	\textasciicircum{}
_	\_
{	\{
}	\}
~	\textasciitilde{}

[karldw]

Hey @flying-sheep, can I contribute to this? It looks like you already have the replacement dictionary and functions in place in utils.r. It also looks like LaTeX special characters in R functions and help files are already being sanitized.

Would it make sense to add LaTeX escapes to:

• character and factor vectors
• lists
• data frames and matrices
  ?

I'm happy to pull something together and submit a pull request, I just wanted to check that I'm not missing some other solution you have in place.

[flying-sheep]

cool, sure!

everything that can contain those characters should be escaped in a sensible way. e.g. character strings.

[karldw]

Are there any other LaTeX things I should escape? Otherwise, this can be closed.

[flying-sheep]

nope! i think this is the best we can do. LaTeX can never be supported perfectly, because you can toggle every character to be special and therefore execute code.