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org-babel — facilitating communication between programming languages and people

Introduction

Org-Babel enables communication between programming languages and between people.

Org-Babel provides:

communication between programs
Data passes seamlessly between different programming languages, text, and tables.
communication between people
Data and calculations are embedded in the same document as notes explanations and reports.

communication between programs

interaction between languages (disk usage in your home directory)

This will work for Linux and Mac users, not so sure about shell commands for windows users.

To run place the cursor on the #+begin_src line of the source block labeled directory-pie and press \C-c\C-c.

cd ~ && du -sc * |grep -v total
64 "Desktop"
11882808 "Documents"
8210024 "Downloads"
879800 "Library"
57344 "Movies"
7590248 "Music"
5307664 "Pictures"
0 "Public"
152 "Sites"
8 "System"
56 "bin"
3274848 "mail"
5282032 "src"
1264 "tools" 
pie(dirs[,1], labels = dirs[,2])

operate in/on tables (processing grades)

student grade letter
1 18 F
2 85 B
3 94 A
4 81 B
5 72 C
6 46 F 
case score
   when 0..59: "F"
   when 60..69: "D"
   when 70..79: "C"
   when 80..89: "B"
   when 90..100: "A"
   else "Invalid Score"
end
rand(100)

communication between people

calculation in/on tables (org-babels own tests)

org-babels own functional tests are contained in a large org-mode table, allowing the test suite to be run be evaluation of the table and the results to be collected in the same table.

interactive documentation (tutorial)

This would demonstrate applicability to Reproducible Research, and Literate Programming.

Tasks [20/28]

TODO resolve references to other buffers

This would allow source blocks to call upon tables, source-blocks, and results in other buffers.

See…

TODO figure out how to handle graphic output

This is listed under graphical output in out objectives.

This should take advantage of the :results file option, and languages which almost always produce graphical output should set :results file to true by default. That would handle placing these results in the buffer. Then if there is a combination of silent and file :results headers we could drop the results to a temp buffer and pop open that buffer…

TODO share org-babel

how should we share org-babel?

  • post to org-mode and ess mailing lists
  • create a org-babel page on worg
  • create a short screencast demonstrating org-babel in action

examples

we need to think up some good examples

interactive tutorials

This could be a place to use org-babel assertions.

for example the first step of a tutorial could assert that the version of the software-package (or whatever) is equal to some value, then source-code blocks could be used with confidence (and executed directly from) the rest of the tutorial.

answering a text-book question w/code example

org-babel is an ideal environment enabling both the development and demonstrationg of the code snippets required as answers to many text-book questions.

something using tables

maybe something along the lines of calculations from collected grades

file sizes

Maybe something like the following which outputs sizes of directories under the home directory, and then instead of the trivial emacs-lisp block we could use an R block to create a nice pie chart of the results.

du -sc ~/*
(mapcar #'car sizes)

TODO command line execution

Allow source code blocks to be called form the command line. This will be easy using the sbe function in org-babel-table.el.

This will rely upon resolve references to other buffers.

TODO inline source code blocks [3/5]

Like the \R{ code } blocks

not sure what the format should be, maybe just something simple like src_lang[]{} where lang is the name of the source code language to be evaluated, [] is optional and contains any header arguments and {} contains the code.

(see the-sandbox)

DONE evaluation with \C-c\C-c

Putting aside the header argument issue for now we can just run these with the following default header arguments

:results
silent
:exports
results

DONE inline exportation

Need to add an interblock hook (or some such) through org-exp-blocks

DONE header arguments

We should make it possible to use header arguments.

TODO fontification

we should color these blocks differently

TODO refine html exportation

should use a span class, and should show original source in tool-tip

PROPOSED support for passing paths to files between source blocks

Maybe this should be it's own result type (in addition to scalars and vectors). The reason being that some source-code blocks (for example ditaa or anything that results in the creation of a file) may want to pass a file path back to org-mode which could then be inserted into the org-mode buffer as a link to the file…

This would allow for display of images upon export providing functionality similar to org-exp-blocks only in a more general manner.

PROPOSED re-implement helper functions from org-R

Much of the power of org-R seems to be in it's helper functions for the quick graphing of tables. Should we try to re-implement these functions on top of org-babel?

I'm thinking this may be useful both to add features to org-babel-R and also to potentially suggest extensions of the framework. For example one that comes to mind is the ability to treat a source-code block like a function which accepts arguments and returns results. Actually this can be it's own TODO (see source blocks as functions).

DEFERRED use textConnection to pass tsv to R?

When passing args from the org buffer to R, the following route is used: arg in buffer -> elisp -> tsv on file -> data frame in R. I think it would be possible to avoid having to write to file by constructing an R expression in org-babel-R-assign-elisp, something like this

(org-babel-R-input-command
 (format  "%s <- read.table(textConnection(\"%s\"), sep=\"\\t\", as.is=TRUE)"
	  name (orgtbl-to-tsv value '(:sep "\t" :fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field))))

I haven't tried to implement this yet as it's basically just fiddling with something that works. The only reason for it I can think of would be efficiency and I haven't tested that.

This Didn't work after an initial test. I still think this is a good idea (I also think we should try to do something similar when writing out results frmo R to elisp) however as it wouldn't result in any functional changes I'm bumping it down to deferred for now. [Eric]

for quick tests

1 2 3 
mean(mean(vec))
2

DEFERRED re-implement R evaluation using ess-command or ess-execute

I don't have any complaints with the current R evaluation code or behaviour, but I think it would be good to use the ESS functions from a political point of view. Plus of course it has the normal benefits of an API (insulates us from any underlying changes etc). [DED]

I'll look into this. I believe that I looked at and rejected these functions initially but now I can't remember why. I agree with your overall point about using API's where available. I will take a look back at these and either switch to using the ess commands, or at least articulate under this TODO the reasons for using our custom R-interaction commands. [Eric]

ess-execute

Lets just replace org-babel-R-input-command with ess-execute.

I tried this, and although it works in some situations, I find that ess-command will often just hang indefinitely without returning results. Also ess-execute will occasionally hang, and pops up the buffer containing the results of the command's execution, which is undesirable. For now these functions can not be used. Maybe someone more familiar with the ESS code can recommend proper usage of ess-command or some other lower-level function which could be used in place of org-babel-R-input-command.

ess functions

(ess-command COM &optional BUF SLEEP NO-PROMPT-CHECK)

Send the ESS process command COM and delete the output from the ESS process buffer. If an optional second argument BUF exists save the output in that buffer. BUF is erased before use. COM should have a terminating newline. Guarantees that the value of .Last.value will be preserved. When optional third arg SLEEP is non-nil, `(sleep-for (* a SLEEP))' will be used in a few places where `a' is proportional to `ess-cmd-delay'.

(ess-execute COMMAND &optional INVERT BUFF MESSAGE)

Send a command to the ESS process. A newline is automatically added to COMMAND. Prefix arg (or second arg INVERT) means invert the meaning of `ess-execute-in-process-buffer'. If INVERT is 'buffer, output is forced to go to the process buffer. If the output is going to a buffer, name it BUFF. This buffer is erased before use. Optional fourth arg MESSAGE is text to print at the top of the buffer (defaults to the command if BUFF is not given.)

out current setup

  1. The body of the R source code block is wrapped in a function
  2. The function is called inside of a write.table function call writing the results to a table
  3. The table is read using org-table-import

DEFERRED Rework Interaction with Running Processes [0/3]

TODO ability to select which of multiple sessions is being used

Increasingly it is looking like we're going to want to run all source code blocks in comint buffer (sessions). Which will have the benefits of

  1. allowing background execution

  2. maintaining state between source-blocks

    • allowing inline blocks w/o header arguments
R sessions

(like ess-switch-process in .R buffers)

Maybe this could be packaged into a header argument, something like :R_session which could accept either the name of the session to use, or the string prompt, in which case we could use the ess-switch-process command to select a new process.

TODO evaluation of shell code as background process?

After C-c C-c on an R code block, the process may appear to block, but C-g can be used to reclaim control of the .org buffer, without interrupting the R evalution. However I believe this is not true of bash/sh evaluation. [Haven't tried other languages] Perhaps a solution is just to background the individual shell commands.

The other languages (aside from emacs lisp) are run through the shell, so if we find a shell solution it should work for them as well.

Adding an ampersand seems to be a supported way to run commands in the background (see external-commands). Although a more extensible solution may involve the use of the call-process-region function.

Going to try this out in a new file org-babel-proc.el. This should contain functions for asynchronously running generic shell commands in the background, and then returning their input.

partial update of org-mode buffer

The sleekest solution to this may be using a comint buffer, and then defining a filter function which would incrementally interpret the results as they are returned, including insertion into the org-mode buffer. This may actually cause more problems than it is worth, what with the complexities of identifying the types of incrementally returned results, and the need for maintenance of a process marker in the org buffer.

'working' spinner

It may be nice and not too difficult to place a spinner on/near the evaluating source code block

TODO conversion of output from interactive shell, R (and python) sessions to org-babel buffers

[DED] This would be a nice feature I think. Although a org-babel purist would say that it's working the wrong way round… After some interactive work in a R buffer, you save the buffer, maybe edit out some lines, and then convert it to org-babel format for posterity. Same for a shell session either in a shell buffer, or pasted from another terminal emulator. And python of course.

DONE ensure that table ranges work

when a table range is passed to org-babel as an argument, it should be interpreted as a vector.

1 2 simple
2 3 Fixnum:1
3 4 Array:123456
4 5
5 6
6 7 
"simple"
"#{n.class}:#{n}"
n
Array:123

ar.size
3

DONE global variable indicating default to vector output

how about an alist… org-babel-default-header-args this may already exist… just execute the following and all source blocks will default to vector output

(setq org-babel-default-header-args '((:results . "vector")))

DONE name named results if source block is named

currently this isn't happening although it should be

:namer
:namer

DONE (simple caching) check for named results before source blocks

see the TODO comment in org-babel-ref.el#org-babel-ref-resolve-reference

DONE set :results silent when eval with prefix argument 

'silentp

DONE results-type header (vector/file) [3/3]

In response to a point in Dan's email. We should allow the user to force scalar or vector results. This could be done with a header argument, and the default behavior could be controlled through a configuration variable.

:scalar
":scalar"

since it doesn't make sense to turn a vector into a scalar, lets just add a two values…

vector
forces the results to be a vector (potentially 1 dimensional)
file
this throws an error if the result isn't a string, and tries to treat it as a path to a file.

I'm just going to cram all of these into the :results header argument. Then if we allow multiple header arguments it should work out, for example one possible header argument string could be :results replace vector file, which would replace any existing results forcing the results into an org-mode table, and interpreting any strings as file paths.

DONE multiple :results headers 

:schulte

DONE file result types

When inserting into an org-mode buffer create a link with the path being the value, and optionally the display being the file-name-nondirectory if it exists.

"something"

something

This will be useful because blocks like ditaa and dot can return the string path of their files, and can add file to their results header.

DONE vector result types 

8
8

DONE results name

In order to do this we will need to start naming our results. Since the source blocks are named with #+srcname: lines we can name results with #+resname: lines (if the source block has no name then no name is given to the #+resname: line on creation, otherwise the name of the source block is used).

This will have the additional benefit of allowing results and source blocks to be located in different places in a buffer (and eventually in different buffers entirely).

'schulte

Once source blocks are able to find their own #+resname: lines we then need to…

(sbe "developing-resnames")
schulte

TODO change the results insertion functions to use these lines

TODO teach references to resolve #+resname lines.

DONE org-babel tests org-babel [1/1]

since we are accumulating this nice collection of source-code blocks in the sandbox section we should make use of them as unit tests. What's more, we should be able to actually use org-babel to run these tests.

We would just need to cycle over every source code block under the sandbox, run it, and assert that the return value is equal to what we expect.

I have the feeling that this should be possible using only org-babel functions with minimal or no additional elisp. It would be very cool for org-babel to be able to test itself.

This is now done, see /ndwarshuis/org-mode/src/commit/28c29ee51e02f41d75221f0d04f0e01779ce391d/%2A%20Tests.

DEFERRED org-babel assertions (may not be necessary)

These could be used to make assertions about the results of a source-code block. If the assertion fails then the point could be moved to the block, and error messages and highlighting etc… could ensue

DONE make C-c C-c work anywhere within source code block?

This seems like it would be nice to me, but perhaps it would be inefficient or ugly in implementation? I suppose you could search forward, and if you find #+end_src before you find #+begin_src, then you're inside one. [DED]

Agreed, I think inside of the #+srcname: line would be useful as well.

'schulte

DONE integration with org tables

We should make it easy to call org-babel source blocks from org-mode table formulas. This is practical now that it is possible to pass arguments to org-babel source blocks.

See the related sandbox header for tests/examples.

digging in org-table.el

In the past org-table.el has proven difficult to work with.

Should be a hook in org-table-eval-formula.

Looks like I need to change this if statement (line 2239) into a cond expression.

DONE source blocks as functions

Allow source code blocks to be called like functions, with arguments specified. We are already able to call a source-code block and assign it's return result to a variable. This would just add the ability to specify the values of the arguments to the source code block assuming any exist. For an example see

When a variable appears in a header argument, how do we differentiate between it's value being a reference or a literal value? I guess this could work just like a programming language. If it's escaped or in quotes, then we count it as a literal, otherwise we try to look it up and evaluate it.

DONE folding of code blocks? [2/2]

[DED] In similar way to using outline-minor-mode for folding function bodies, can we fold code blocks? #+begin whatever statements are pretty ugly, and in any case when you're thinking about the overall game plan you don't necessarily want to see the code for each Step.

DONE folding of source code block

Sounds good, and wasn't too hard to implement. Code blocks should now be fold-able in the same manner as headlines (by pressing TAB on the first line).

REJECTED folding of results

So, lets do a three-stage tab cycle… First fold the src block, then fold the results, then unfold.

There's no way to tell if the results are a table or not w/o actually executing the block which would be too expensive of an operation.

DONE selective export of text, code, figures

[DED] The org-babel buffer contains everything (code, headings and notes/prose describing what you're up to, textual/numeric/graphical code output, etc). However on export to html / LaTeX one might want to include only a subset of that content. For example you might want to create a presentation of what you've done which omits the code.

[EMS] So I think this should be implemented as a property which can be set globally or on the outline header level (I need to review the mechanics of org-mode properties). And then as a source block header argument which will apply only to a specific source code block. A header argument of :export with values of

code
just show the code in the source code block
none
don't show the code or the results of the evaluation
results
just show the results of the code evaluation (don't show the actual code)
both
show both the source code, and the results

this will be done in (sandbox) selective export.

DONE a header argument specifying silent evaluation (no output)

This would be useful across all types of source block. Currently there is a :replace t option to control output, this could be generalized to an :output option which could take the following options (maybe more)

t
this would be the default, and would simply insert the results after the source block
replace
to replace any results which may already be there
silent
this would inhibit any insertion of the results

This is now implemented see the example in the sandbox

DONE assign variables from tables in R

This is now working (see (sandbox-table)-R). Although it's not that impressive until we are able to print table results from R.

DONE insert 2-D R results as tables

everything is working but R and shell

DONE shells

DONE R

This has already been tackled by Dan in org-R:check-dimensions. The functions there should be useful in combination with R-export-to-csv as a means of converting multidimensional R objects to emacs lisp.

It may be as simple as first checking if the data is multidimensional, and then, if so using write to write the data out to a temporary file from which emacs can read the data in using org-table-import.

Looking into this further, is seems that there is no such thing as a scalar in R R-scalar-vs-vector. In that light I am not sure how to deal with trivial vectors (scalars) in R. I'm tempted to just treat them as vectors, but then that would lead to a proliferation of trivial 1-cell tables…

DONE allow variable initialization from source blocks

Currently it is possible to initialize a variable from an org-mode table with a block argument like table=sandbox (note that the variable doesn't have to named table) as in the following example

1 2 3
4 schulte 6 
(message (format "table = %S" table))
"table = ((1 2 3) (4 \"schulte\" 6))"

It would be good to allow initialization of variables from the results of other source blocks in the same manner. This would probably require the addition of #+SRCNAME: example lines for the naming of source blocks, also the table=sandbox syntax may have to be expanded to specify whether the target is a source code block or a table (alternately we could just match the first one with the given name whether it's a table or a source code block).

At least initially I'll try to implement this so that there is no need to specify whether the reference is to a table or a source-code block. That seems to be simpler both in terms of use and implementation.

This is now working for emacs-lisp, ruby and python (and mixtures of the three) source blocks. See the examples in the sandbox.

This is currently working only with emacs lisp as in the following example in the emacs lisp source reference.

TODO Add languages [0/5]

I'm sure there are many more that aren't listed here. Please add them, and bubble any that you particularly care about up to the top.

Any new language should be implemented in a org-babel-lang.el file. Follow the pattern set by org-babel-script.el, org-babel-shell.el and org-babel-R.el.

TODO perl

This could probably be added to org-babel-script.el

TODO java

TODO ditaa

(see file result types)

TODO dot

(see file result types)

TODO asymptote

(see file result types)

Bugs [10/14]

TODO R-code broke on "org-babel" rename 

8

TODO non-orgtbl formatted lists

for example

'((:results . "replace"))

TODO collapsing consecutive newlines in string output 

"the first line ends here


     and this is the second one

even a third"
the first line ends here
	     and this is the second one
	return even a third

TODO cursor movement when evaluating source blocks

E.g. the pie chart example. Despite the save-window-excursion in org-babel-execute:R. (I never learned how to do this properly: org-R jumps all over the place…)

DONE error on trivial R results

So I know it's generally not a good idea to squash error without handling them, but in this case the error almost always means that there was no file contents to be read by org-table-import, so I think it's ok.

pie(c(1, 2, 3), labels = c(1, 2, 3))
8
8

c(1, 2, 3)
1
2
3

DONE ruby new variable creation (multi-line ruby blocks)

Actually it looks like we were dropping all but the last line.

total = 0
table.each{|n| total += n}
total/table.size
2

DONE R code execution seems to choke on certain inputs

Currently the R code seems to work on vertical (but not landscape) tables

"schulte"
num
schulte
11
11
11
schulte
9
9
11

(setq debug-on-error t)
'(1 2 3)
mean(mean(table))
2
1
2
3 
mean(table)

DEFERRED org bug/request: prevent certain org behaviour within code blocks

E.g. gets recognised as a link (when there's text inside the brackets). This is bad for R code at least, and more generally could be argued to be inappropriate. Is it difficult to get org to ignore text in code blocks? [DED]

I believe Carsten addressed this recently on the mailing list with the comment that it was indeed a difficult issue. I believe this may be one area where we could wait for an upstream (org-mode) fix.

DONE with :results replace, non-table output doesn't replace table output

And vice versa. E.g. Try this first with table and then with len(table) [DED]

table
1 2 3
4 "schulte" 6 
2

Yes, this is certainly a problem. I fear that if we begin replacing anything immediately following a source block (regardless of whether it matches the type of our current results) we may accidentally delete hand written portions of the user's org-mode buffer.

I think that the best solution here would be to actually start labeling results with a line that looks something like…

This would have a couple of benefits…

  1. we wouldn't have to worry about possibly deleting non-results (which is currently an issue)
  2. we could reliably replace results even if there are different types
  3. we could reference the results of a source-code block in variable definitions, which would be useful if for example we don't wish to re-run a source-block every time because it is long-running.

Thoughts? If no-one objects, I believe I will implement the labeling of results.

DONE extra quotes for nested string

Well R appears to be reading the tables without issue…

these should be quoted

ls
"COPYING"
"README.markdown"
"block"
"examples.org"
"existing_tools"
"intro.org"
"org-babel"
"rorg.org"
"test-export.html"
"test-export.org" 
tab[1][0]
README.markdown

as.matrix(tab[2,])
README.markdown

DONE simple ruby arrays not working

As an example eval the following. Adding a line to test

[3, 4, 5]
ar.first

DONE space trailing language name

fix regexp so it works when there's a space trailing the language name

:schulte

DONE Args out of range error

The following block resulted in the error below [DED]. It ran without error directly in the shell.

cd ~/work/genopca
for platf in ill aff ; do
    for pop in CEU YRI ASI ; do
	rm -f $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-all $platf/hapmap-rs-all
	cat $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-* > $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-all
	cat $platf/hapmap-rs-* > $platf/hapmap-rs-all
    done
done

executing source block with sh… finished executing source block string-equal: Args out of range: "", -1, 0

the error string-equal: Args out of range: "", -1, 0 looks like what used to be output when the block returned an empty results string. This should be fixed in the current version, you should now see the following message no result returned by source block.

DONE ruby arrays not recognized as such

Something is wrong in /ndwarshuis/org-mode/src/commit/28c29ee51e02f41d75221f0d04f0e01779ce391d/lisp/org-babel-script.el related to the recognition of ruby arrays as such.

[1, 2, 3, 4]
1 2 3 4 
[1, 2, 3, 4]
1 2 3 4

Tests

Evaluate all the cells in this table for a comprehensive test of the org-babel functionality.

Note: if you have customized org-babel-default-header-args then some of these tests may fail.

functionality block arg expected results pass
basic evaluation pass
emacs lisp basic-elisp 5 5 pass
shell basic-shell 6 6 pass
ruby basic-ruby org-babel org-babel pass
python basic-python hello world hello world pass
R basic-R 13 13 pass
tables pass
emacs lisp table-elisp 3 3 pass
ruby table-ruby 1-2-3 1-2-3 pass
python table-python 5 5 pass
R table-R 3.5 3.5 pass
source block references pass
all languages chained-ref-last Array Array pass
source block functions pass
emacs lisp defun-fibb fibbd fibbd pass
run over Fibonacci 0 1 1 pass
a Fibonacci 1 1 1 pass
variety Fibonacci 2 2 2 pass
of Fibonacci 3 3 3 pass
different Fibonacci 4 5 5 pass
arguments Fibonacci 5 8 8 pass
bugs and tasks pass
simple ruby arrays ruby-array-test 3 3 pass
R number evaluation bug-R-number-evaluation 2 2 pass
multi-line ruby blocks multi-line-ruby-test 2 2 pass
forcing vector results test-forced-vector-results Array Array pass

basic tests 

(+ 1 4)
expr 1 + 5
"org-babel"
'hello world'
b <- 9
b + 4

read tables

1 2 3
4 5 6 
(length (car table))
table.first.join("-")
table[1][1]
mean(mean(table))

references

Lets pass a references through all of our languages…

Lets start by reversing the table from the previous examples

table.reverse

Take the first part of the list

table[1]

Turn the numbers into string

(mapcar (lambda (el) (format "%S" el)) table)

and Check that it is still a list

table.class.name

source blocks as functions 

(defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
(fibbd n)

sbe tests

Testing the insertion of results into org-mode tables.

"the first line ends here


     and this is the second one

even a third"
the first line ends here
	     and this is the second one
	return even a third

raise "oh nooooooooooo"
-:5: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
-:5:in `main': oh nooooooooooo (RuntimeError)
	from -:8
the first line ends here… -:5: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version…

forcing results types tests 

8
triv.class.name

Sandbox

To run these examples evaluate org-babel-init.el

org-babel.el beginning functionality 

date
Thu May 14 18:52:25 EDT 2009

Time.now
Thu May 14 18:59:09 -0400 2009

"Hello World"
Hello World

org-babel-R 

a <- 9
b <- 16
a + b
25

hist(rgamma(20,3,3))

org-babel plays with tables

Alright, this should demonstrate both the ability of org-babel to read tables into a lisp source code block, and to then convert the results of the source code block into an org table. It's using the classic "lisp is elegant" demonstration transpose function. To try this out…

  1. evaluate /ndwarshuis/org-mode/src/commit/28c29ee51e02f41d75221f0d04f0e01779ce391d/lisp/org-babel-init.el to load org-babel and friends
  2. evaluate the transpose definition \C-c\C-c on the beginning of the source block
  3. evaluate the next source code block, this should read in the table because of the :var table=previous, then transpose the table, and finally it should insert the transposed table into the buffer immediately following the block

Emacs lisp 

(defun transpose (table)
  (apply #'mapcar* #'list table))
1 2 3
4 schulte 6 
(transpose table)
'(1 2 3 4 5)
1 2 3 4 5

Ruby and Python 

table.first.join(" - ")
"1 - 2 - 3"

table[0]
1 2 3 
table
1 2 3
4 "schulte" 6 
len(table)
2
"add" "class" "contains" "delattr" "delitem" "delslice" "doc" "eq" "format" "ge" "getattribute" "getitem" "getslice" "gt" "hash" "iadd" "imul" "init" "iter" "le" "len" "lt" "mul" "ne" "new" "reduce" "reduce_ex" "repr" "reversed" "rmul" "setattr" "setitem" "setslice" "sizeof" "str" "subclasshook" "append" "count" "extend" "index" "insert" "pop" "remove" "reverse" "sort"

(sandbox table) R

1 2 3
4 schulte 6 
x <- c(rnorm(10, mean=-3, sd=1), rnorm(10, mean=3, sd=1))
x
-3.35473133869346
-2.45714878661
-3.32819924928633
-2.97310212756194
-2.09640758369576
-5.06054014378736
-2.20713700711221
-1.37618039712037
-1.95839385821742
-3.90407396475502
2.51168071590226
3.96753011570494
3.31793212627865
1.99829753972341
4.00403686419829
4.63723764452927
3.94636744261313
3.58355906547775
3.01563442274226
1.7634976849927 
tabel
1 2 3
4 "schulte" 6

shell

Now shell commands are converted to tables using org-table-import and if these tables are non-trivial (i.e. have multiple elements) then they are imported as org-mode tables…

ls -l
"total" 208 "" "" "" "" "" ""
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 57 2009 15 "block"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 35147 2009 15 "COPYING"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 722 2009 18 "examples.org"
"drwxr-xr-x" 4 "dan" "dan" 4096 2009 19 "existing_tools"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 2207 2009 14 "intro.org"
"drwxr-xr-x" 2 "dan" "dan" 4096 2009 18 "org-babel"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 277 2009 20 "README.markdown"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 11837 2009 18 "rorg.html"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 61829 2009 19 "#rorg.org#"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 60190 2009 19 "rorg.org"
"-rw-r–r–" 1 "dan" "dan" 972 2009 11 "test-export.org"

silent evaluation 

:im_the_results
:im_the_results

:im_the_results
:im_the_results_
:im_the_results_

(sandbox) referencing other source blocks

Doing this in emacs-lisp first because it's trivial to convert emacs-lisp results to and from emacs-lisp.

emacs lisp source reference

This first example performs a calculation in the first source block named top, the results of this calculation are then saved into the variable first by the header argument :var first=top, and it is used in the calculations of the second source block.

(+ 4 2)
(* first 3)
18

This example is the same as the previous only the variable being passed through is a table rather than a number.

(defun transpose (table)
  (apply #'mapcar* #'list table))
1 2 3
4 schulte 6 
(transpose table)
(transpose table)
1 2 3
4 "schulte" 6

ruby python

Now working for ruby

89
2 * other

and for python

98
another*3

mixed languages

Since all variables are converted into Emacs Lisp it is no problem to reference variables specified in another language.

2
(* ruby-variable 8)
lisp_var + 4
20

R 

a <- 9
a
9

other + 2
11

(sandbox) selective export

For exportation tests and examples see (including exportation of inline source code blocks) /ndwarshuis/org-mode/src/commit/28c29ee51e02f41d75221f0d04f0e01779ce391d/test-export.org

(sandbox) source blocks as functions 

5
(* 3 n)
15

result
294

The following just demonstrates the ability to assign variables to literal values, which was not implemented until recently.

num+" schulte "
"eric schulte "

(sandbox) inline source blocks

This is an inline source code block 

1 + 6
. And another source block with text output src_emacs-lisp{"eric"}.

This is an inline source code block with header arguments. 

n

(sandbox) integration w/org tables 

(defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
(fibbd n)
(mapcar #'fibbd '(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8))

Something is not working here. The function `sbe ' works fine when called from outside of the table (see the source block below), but produces an error when called from inside the table. I think there must be some narrowing going on during intra-table emacs-lisp evaluation.

original fibbd
0 1
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 5
5 8
6 13
7 21
8 34
9 55

silent-result

(sbe 'fibbd (n "8"))

Buffer Dictionary

LocalWords: DBlocks dblocks org-babel el eric fontification