Thanks all for the prompt responses. Now Hmisc::latex() no longer generates errors on Rcmdr::numSummary() objects (with `tempa' below being such an object). > colnames(tempa$table) <- gsub("%", "\\%", colnames(tempa$table), fixed=TRUE) > latex(tempa$table, cdec=3)
Best regards, Liviu On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> wrote: > See 'The R Inferno' page 46. > > > > Patrick Burns > patr...@burns-stat.com > +44 (0)20 8525 0696 > http://www.burns-stat.com > (home of "The R Inferno" and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") > > Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> I'm trying to gsub() "%" with "\%" with no obvious success. >>> >>> temp1 <- c("mean", "sd", "0%", "25%", "50%", "75%", "100%") >>> temp1 >> >> [1] "mean" "sd" "0%" "25%" "50%" "75%" "100%" >>> >>> gsub("%", "\%", temp1, fixed=TRUE) >> >> [1] "mean" "sd" "0%" "25%" "50%" "75%" "100%" >> Warning messages: >> 1: '\%' is an unrecognized escape in a character string >> 2: unrecognized escape removed from "\%" >> >> I am not quite sure on how to deal with this error message. I tried >> the following >>> >>> gsub("%", "\\%", temp1, fixed=TRUE) >> >> [1] "mean" "sd" "0\\%" "25\\%" "50\\%" "75\\%" "100\\%" >> >> Could anyone suggest how to obtain output similar to: >> [1] "mean" "sd" "0\%" "25\%" "50\%" "75\%" "100\%" >> >> Thank you, >> Liviu >> >> >> > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.