escape.HtmlPrintStream: Escape string to make it HTML compatible

In HenrikBengtsson/R.io: [R] Class Library - File, connection and I/O classes

Description

Some characters in HTML are used for markup and has to be escape to be display literally. First of all, "<" and ">" is escaped with < and >. The character "&" is escaped with &. The quotation mark is escaped with &quote;.

Usage

HtmlPrintStream$escape(s, escQuote=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

s	Character string to be escaped.
escQuote	If TRUE, quotation marks are escaped, otherwise not. Default value is FALSE.

Value

Returns a character string with escaped characters.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

Examples

  s1 <- "It is well known that 0.999 < 1 & PI > 3.14."
  print(s1)
  s2 <- HtmlPrintStream$escape(s1)
  print(s2)

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