wrMisc (version 1.2.3)

htmlSpecCharConv: Html special character conversion

Description

Converts 'txt' so that special characters (like 'beta','micro','square' etc) will be displayed correctly whe used for display in html (eg at mouse-over). Note : uses package stringi

Usage

htmlSpecCharConv(txt)

Arguments

txt

character vector inclusing special characters

Value

corrected character vector adopted to html display

See Also

tables on http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/latin1.html, http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php, http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Examples

# NOT RUN {
(x <- stringi::stri_unescape_unicode("\\u00b5\\u003d\\u0061\\u0062"))
htmlSpecCharConv(x)
# }