babel: ob-perl is now using the new ob-eval functionality
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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
8 ;; Version: 0.01
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25 ;;; Commentary:
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)))))
32 ;; #+end_src
34 ;; #+srcname: fibbd
35 ;; #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var n=2 :results silent
36 ;; (fibbd n)
37 ;; #+end_src
39 ;; | original | fibbd |
40 ;; |----------+--------|
41 ;; | 0 | |
42 ;; | 1 | |
43 ;; | 2 | |
44 ;; | 3 | |
45 ;; | 4 | |
46 ;; | 5 | |
47 ;; | 6 | |
48 ;; | 7 | |
49 ;; | 8 | |
50 ;; | 9 | |
51 ;; #+TBLFM: $2='(sbe 'fibbd (n $1))
53 ;;; Code:
54 (require 'ob)
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)) "...")
61 string))
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 $2) (m 3))
72 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var results=source-block(n=val_at_col_2, m=3) :results silent
73 results
74 #+end_src
76 NOTE: by default string variable names are interpreted as
77 references to source-code blocks, to force interpretation of a
78 cell's value as a string, prefix the identifier with two \"$\"s
79 rather than a single \"$\" (i.e. \"$$2\" instead of \"$2\" in the
80 example above."
81 (let ((variables (mapcar
82 (lambda (var)
83 (if (and (= 3 (length var)) (eq (nth 1 var) '$))
84 (list (car var) (format "\"%s\"" (last var)))
85 var))
86 variables)))
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))
90 (let ((params
91 (eval `(org-babel-parse-header-arguments
92 (concat ":var results="
93 ,source-block
94 "("
95 (mapconcat (lambda (var-spec)
96 (format "%S=%s" (nth 0 var-spec) (nth 1 var-spec)))
97 ',variables ", ")
98 ")")))))
99 (org-babel-execute-src-block
100 nil (list "emacs-lisp" "results"
101 (org-babel-merge-params '((:results . "silent")) params))))
102 ""))))
104 (provide 'ob-table)
106 ;; arch-tag: 4234cc7c-4fc8-4e92-abb0-2892de1a493b
108 ;;; ob-table.el ends here