1 ;;; ob-table.el --- support for calling org-babel functions from tables
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Eric Schulte
6 ;; Keywords: literate programming, reproducible research
7 ;; Homepage: http://orgmode.org
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27 ;; Should allow calling functions from org-mode tables using the
28 ;; function `sbe' as so...
30 ;; #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
31 ;; (defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
35 ;; #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var n=2 :results silent
39 ;; | original | fibbd |
40 ;; |----------+--------|
51 ;; #+TBLFM: $2='(sbe 'fibbd (n $1))
56 (defun org-babel-table-truncate-at-newline (string)
57 "If STRING ends in a newline character, then remove the newline
58 character and replace it with ellipses."
59 (if (and (stringp string
) (string-match "[\n\r]" string
))
60 (concat (substring string
0 (match-beginning 0)) "...")
63 (defmacro sbe
(source-block &rest variables
)
64 "Return the results of calling SOURCE-BLOCK assigning every
65 variable in VARIABLES. Each element of VARIABLES should be a two
66 element list, whose first element is the name of the variable and
67 second element is a string of its value. The following call to
68 `sbe' would be equivalent to the following source code block.
70 (sbe 'source-block (n $2) (m 3))
72 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var results=source-block(n=val_at_col_2, m=3) :results silent
76 NOTE: by default string variable names are interpreted as
77 references to source-code blocks, to force interpretation of a
78 cell's value as a string, prefix the identifier with two \"$\"s
79 rather than a single \"$\" (i.e. \"$$2\" instead of \"$2\" in the
81 (let ((variables (mapcar
83 (if (and (= 3 (length var
)) (eq (nth 1 var
) '$
))
84 (list (car var
) (format "\"%s\"" (last var
)))
87 (unless (stringp source-block
) (setq source-block
(symbol-name source-block
)))
88 (org-babel-table-truncate-at-newline ;; org-table cells can't be multi-line
89 (if (and source-block
(> (length source-block
) 0))
91 (eval `(org-babel-parse-header-arguments
92 (concat ":var results="
95 (mapconcat (lambda (var-spec)
96 (format "%S=%s" (nth 0 var-spec
) (nth 1 var-spec
)))
99 (org-babel-execute-src-block
100 nil
(list "emacs-lisp" "results"
101 (org-babel-merge-params '((:results .
"silent")) params
))))
106 ;; arch-tag: 4234cc7c-4fc8-4e92-abb0-2892de1a493b
108 ;;; ob-table.el ends here