[R] %% in \example{}

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Edzer J. Pebesma wrote:

> I would like to use the %% operator in the \example{} section of a R
> documentation
> file, but it leads to errors when this is processed.
>
> How should I do this?

Read the manual, `Writing R Extensions' in this case:

The ``comment'' and ``control'' characters @samp{%} and @samp{\}
@emph{always} need to be escaped.  Inside the verbatim-like commands
(@code{\code} and @code{\examples}), no other characters are special

so it's \%\% you need to write.


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