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