I use the xtables package in R to generate nice-looking tables for LaTeX output,
as in the snippet below. The new exporter escapes the % symbol in the R output,
so that the comments generated by xtable are no longer comments.
* Snippet
#+HEADER: :results output latex
#+HEADER: :exports results
#+BEGIN_SRC R
library(xtable)
xtable(matrix(c(1,2,3,4),nrow=2,ncol=2))
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_LaTeX
% latex table generated in R 2.15.1 by xtable 1.7-0 package
% Thu Oct 25 13:11:30 2012
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrr}
\hline
& 1 & 2 \\
\hline
1 & 1.00 & 3.00 \\
2 & 2.00 & 4.00 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
#+END_LaTeX