1 #+TITLE: org-babel --- facilitating communication between programming languages and people
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8 <p>executable source code blocks in org-mode</p>
12 <img src="images/tower-of-babel.png" alt="images/tower-of-babel.png" />
13 <div id="attr">from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23379658@N05/" title=""><b>Martijn Streefkerk</b></a></div>
18 Org-Babel makes source-code blocks in Org-Mode executable and allows
19 data to pass seamlessly between different programming languages,
20 Org-Mode constructs (tables, file links, example text) and interactive
24 - The [[* Introduction][Introduction]] :: provides a brief overview of the design and use
25 of Org-Babel including tutorials and examples.
26 - In [[* Getting started][Getting Started]] :: find instructions for installing org-babel
27 into your emacs configuration.
28 - The [[* Tasks][Tasks]] :: section contains current and past tasks roughly ordered
29 by TODO state, then importance or date-completed. This would be
30 a good place to suggest ideas for development.
31 - The [[* Bugs][Bugs]] :: section contains bug reports.
32 - The [[* Tests][Tests]] :: section consists of a large table which can be
33 evaluated to run Org-Babel's functional test suite. This
34 provides a good overview of the current functionality with
35 pointers to example source blocks.
36 - The [[* Sandbox][Sandbox]] :: demonstrates much of the early/basic functionality
37 through commented source-code blocks.
39 Also see the [[file:library-of-babel.org][Library of Babel]], an extensible collection of ready-made
40 and easily-shortcut-callable source-code blocks for handling common
45 Org-Babel enables *communication* between programming languages and
49 - communication between programs :: Data passes seamlessly between
50 different programming languages, Org-Mode constructs (tables,
51 file links, example text) and interactive comint buffers.
52 - communication between people :: Data and calculations are embedded
53 in the same document as notes explanations and reports.
55 ** communication between programs
57 Org-Mode supports embedded blocks of source code (in any language)
58 inside of Org documents. Org-Babel allows these blocks of code to be
59 executed from within Org-Mode with natural handling of their inputs
63 with both scalar, file, and table output
65 *** reading information from tables
67 *** reading information from other source blocks (disk usage in your home directory)
69 This will work for Linux and Mac users, not so sure about shell
70 commands for windows users.
72 To run place the cursor on the =#+begin_src= line of the source block
73 labeled directory-pie and press =\C-c\C-c=.
75 #+srcname: directories
76 #+begin_src bash :results replace
77 cd ~ && du -sc * |grep -v total
80 #+resname: directories
82 | 11882808 | "Documents" |
83 | 8210024 | "Downloads" |
84 | 879800 | "Library" |
87 | 5307664 | "Pictures" |
96 #+srcname: directory-pie
97 #+begin_src R :var dirs = directories :session R-pie-example
98 pie(dirs[,1], labels = dirs[,2])
106 *** operations in/on tables
108 #+tblname: grades-table
109 | student | grade | letter |
110 |---------+-------+--------|
117 #+TBLFM: $2='(sbe random-score-generator)::$3='(sbe assign-grade (score $2))
119 #+srcname: assign-grade
120 #+begin_src ruby :var score=99
131 #+srcname: random-score-generator
136 #+srcname: show-distribution
137 #+begin_src R :var grades=grades-table :session *R*
145 ** communication between people
146 Quick overview of Org-Mode's exportation abilities, with links to the
147 online Org-Mode documentation, a focus on source-code blocks, and the
148 exportation options provided by Org-Babel.
150 *** Interactive tutorial
151 This would demonstrate applicability to Reproducible Research, and
152 Literate Programming.
154 *** Tests embedded in documentation
155 org-babels own functional tests are contained in a large org-mode
156 table, allowing the test suite to be run be evaluation of the table
157 and the results to be collected in the same table.
159 *** Emacs initialization files stored in Org-Mode buffers
160 Using `org-babel-tangle' it is possible to embed your Emacs
161 initialization into org-mode files. This allows for folding,
162 note-taking, todo's etc... embedded with the source-code of your Emacs
163 initialization, and through org-mode's publishing features aids in
164 sharing your customizations with others.
166 It may be worthwhile to create a fork of Phil Hagelberg's
167 [[http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/tree/master][emacs-starter-kit]] which uses literate org-mode files for all of the
168 actual elisp customization. These org-mode files could then be
169 exported to html and used to populate the repositories wiki on [[http://github.com/][github]].
174 *** code evaluation (comint buffer sessions and external processes)
175 There are two main ways to evaluate source blocks with org-babel.
177 - external :: By default (if the =:session= header argument is not
178 present) all source code blocks are evaluated in
179 external processes. In these cases an external process
180 is used to evaluate the source-code blocks.
181 - session :: Session based evaluation uses persistent sessions in
182 comint buffers. Sessions can be used across multiple
183 source blocks setting and accessing variables in the
186 Evaluating source blocks in sessions also allows for
187 interaction with the code. To jump to the session of a
188 source block use the `org-babel-pop-to-session' command
189 or press =M-[down]= while inside of a source code block.
190 When called with a prefix argument
191 `org-babel-pop-to-session' will evaluate all header
192 arguments before jumping to the source-code block.
194 *** results (values and outputs)
195 Either the *value* or the *output* of source code blocks can be
196 collected after evaluation.
198 - value :: The default way to collect results from a source-code block
199 is to return the value of the last statement in the block.
200 This can be thought of as the return value of the block.
201 In this case any printed output of the block is ignored.
202 This can be though of a similar to a "functional" value of
204 - output :: Another way of generating results from a source-code block
205 is to collect the output generated by the execution of the
206 block. In this case all printed output is collected
207 throughout the execution of the block. This can be
208 thought of as similar to a "script" style of evaluation.
212 Add the following lines to your .emacs, replacing the path as
213 appropriate. A good place to check that things are up and running
214 would then be [[#sandbox][the sandbox]].
215 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
216 (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/org-babel/lisp")
217 (require 'org-babel-init)
222 ** STARTED share org-babel [1/6]
223 how should we share org-babel?
224 *** DONE post to org-mode
225 *** TODO post to ess mailing list
226 *** TODO create a org-babel page on worg
227 *** TODO create a short screencast demonstrating org-babel in action
228 *** PROPOSED a peer-reviewed publication?
230 The following notes are biased towards statistics-oriented
231 journals because ESS and Sweave are written by people associated
232 with / in statistics departments. But I am sure there are suitable
233 journals out there for an article on using org mode for
234 reproducible research (and literate programming etc).
236 Clearly, we would invite Carsten to be involved with this.
238 ESS is described in a peer-reviewed journal article:
239 Emacs Speaks Statistics: A Multiplatform, Multipackage Development Environment for Statistical Analysis [Abstract]
240 Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics 13(1), 247-261
241 Rossini, A.J, Heiberger, R.M., Sparapani, R.A., Maechler, M., Hornik, K. (2004)
242 [[http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs.cfm][Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics]]
244 Also [[http://www.amstat.org/publications/jss.cfm][Journal of Statistical Software]] Established in 1996, the
245 Journal of Statistical Software publishes articles, book reviews,
246 code snippets, and software reviews. The contents are freely
247 available online. For both articles and code snippets, the source
248 code is published along with the paper.
252 Friedrich Leisch and Anthony J. Rossini. Reproducible statistical
253 research. Chance, 16(2):46-50, 2003. [ bib ]
257 Friedrich Leisch. Sweave: Dynamic generation of statistical reports
258 using literate data analysis. In Wolfgang Härdle and Bernd Rönz,
259 editors, Compstat 2002 - Proceedings in Computational Statistics,
260 pages 575-580. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, 2002. ISBN 3-7908-1517-9.
264 We could also look at the Journals publishing these [[http://www.reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/RR_links#Articles_about_RR_.28chronologically.29][Reproducible
267 *** PROPOSED an article in [[http://journal.r-project.org/][The R Journal]]
268 This looks good. It seems that their main topic to software tools for
269 use by R programmers, and Org-babel is certainly that.
271 *** existing similar tools
272 try to collect pointers to similar tools
274 Reproducible Research
275 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweave][Sweave]]
278 - [[http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/][Noweb]]
279 - [[http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html][Cweb]]
280 - [[http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ocamlweb/][OCamlWeb]]
282 Meta Functional Programming
285 Programmable Spreadsheet
289 we need to think up some good examples
291 **** interactive tutorials
292 This could be a place to use [[* org-babel assertions][org-babel assertions]].
294 for example the first step of a tutorial could assert that the version
295 of the software-package (or whatever) is equal to some value, then
296 source-code blocks could be used with confidence (and executed
297 directly from) the rest of the tutorial.
299 **** answering a text-book question w/code example
300 org-babel is an ideal environment enabling both the development and
301 demonstrationg of the code snippets required as answers to many
304 **** something using tables
305 maybe something along the lines of calculations from collected grades
308 Maybe something like the following which outputs sizes of directories
309 under the home directory, and then instead of the trivial =emacs-lisp=
310 block we could use an R block to create a nice pie chart of the
314 #+begin_src bash :results replace
318 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var sizes=sizes :results replace
321 *** Answer to question on list
322 From: Hector Villafuerte <hectorvd@gmail.com>
323 Subject: [Orgmode] Merge tables
324 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:08:40 -0600
325 To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
328 I've just discovered Org and are truly impressed with it; using it for
331 Here's what I want to do: I have 2 tables with the same number of rows
332 (one row per subject). I would like to make just one big table by
333 copying the second table to the right of the first one. This is a
334 no-brainer in a spreadsheet but my attempts in Org have failed. Any
337 By the way, thanks for this great piece of software!
341 **** Suppose the tables are as follows
354 **** Here is an answer using R in org-babel
356 #+srcname: column-bind(a=tab1, b=tab2)
357 #+begin_src R :colnames t
361 #+resname: column-bind
362 | "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" |
363 |-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----|
364 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
365 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
369 Use org-table-export, do it in external spreadsheet software,
370 then org-table-import
371 ** TODO sha1 hash based caching
373 :CUSTOM_ID: sha1-caching
377 I wonder if we should consider some cashing of images, also for
378 export. I think we could have an alist with sha1 hashes as keys and
379 image files as values. The sha1 hash could be made from the entire
380 code and the command that is used to create the image..
387 (sha1 stuff) seems to work.
389 org-feed.el has a (require 'sha1) and org-publish.el uses it too.
394 ** TODO support for working with =*Org Edit Src Example*= buffers [4/7]
395 *** STARTED Patch against org source.
396 I've worked on several related changes to source code edit buffer
397 behaviour in the org core. My current patch (below) does the
398 following. Detailed explanation / working notes are below.
399 - C-x s offers to save edit buffers
400 - C-x C-c offers to save edit buffers
401 - C-x k warns that you're killing an edit buffer
402 - If you do kill an edit buffer, the overlay in the parent buffer is removed
403 - Edit buffers are named *Org Src <orgbuf>[<lang>]*, where
404 <orgbuf> is the name of the org-mode buffer containing this
405 source code block, and lang is the language major mode. The
406 latter might be unnecessary?
408 These changes were added to the main org repository in commit
409 4b6988bf36cb458c9d113ee4332e016990c1eb04
411 **** Detailed working notes to go with that patch
412 ***** Recap of current org-src-mode
414 If you use C-c ' to work on code in a begin_source block, the code
415 buffer is put in minor mode org-src-mode, which features the
416 following two useful key-bindings:
418 | C-x s | org-edit-src-save | save the code in the source code block in the parent org file |
419 | C-c ' | org-edit-src-exit | return to the parent org file with new code |
421 Furthermore, while the edit buffer is alive, the originating code
422 block is subject to a special overlay which links to the edit
423 buffer when you click on it.
425 This is all excellent, and I use it daily, but I think there's
426 still a couple of improvements that we should make.
429 C-x k kills the buffer without questions; the overlay remains, but
430 now links to a deleted buffer.
431 ***** Proposed bug II
432 C-x C-c kills a modified edit buffer silently, without offering to
433 save your work. I have lost work like that a number of times
435 ***** Proposed bug III
436 C-x s does not offer to save a modified edit buffer
437 ***** Notes on solution
438 ****** write-contents-functions
439 A good start seems to be to use org-src-mode-hook to add
440 org-edit-src-save to the write-contents-functions list. This
441 means that when it comes to saving, org-edit-src-save will be
442 called and no subsequent attempt will be made to save the buffer
443 in the normal way. (This should obviate the remapping of C-x C-s
444 to org-edit-src-save in org-src.el)
445 ****** buffer-offer-save
446 We also want to set this to t.
448 ****** Where does this get us?
450 - C-x s still does *not* offer to save the edit buffer. That's
451 because buffer-file-name is nil.
453 - C-x C-c does ask us whether we want to save the
454 edit buffer. However, since buffer-file-name is nil it asks us
455 for a file name. The check in org-edit-src-exit throws an error
456 unless the buffer is named '* Org Edit '...
458 - C-x k kills the buffer silently, leaving a broken overlay
459 link. If buffer-file-name were set, it would have warned that
460 the buffer was modified.
462 ****** buffer-file-name
463 So, that all suggests that we need to set buffer-file-name, even
464 though we don't really want to associate this buffer with a file
465 in the normal way. As for the file name, my current suggestion
466 is parent-org-filename[edit-buffer-name].
468 [I had to move the (org-src-mode) call to the end of
469 org-edit-src-code to make sure that the required variables were
470 defined when the hook was called.]
472 ****** And so where are we now?
473 - C-x s *does* offer to save the edit buffer, but in saving
474 produces a warning that the edit buffer is modified.
475 - C-x k now gives a warning that the edit buffer is modified
477 - C-x C-c is working as desired, except that again we get
478 warnings that the edit buffer is modified, once when we save,
479 and again just before exiting emacs.
480 - And C-c ' now issues a warning that the edit buffer is
481 modified when we leave it, which we don't want.
482 ****** So, we need to get rid of the buffer modification warnings.
483 I've made buffer-file-name nil inside the let binding in
486 - C-x s behaves as desired, except that as was already the case,
487 the edit buffer is always considered modified, and so repeated
488 invocations keep saving it.
489 - As was already the case, C-x k always gives a warning that the
490 edit buffer has been modified.
491 - C-x C-c is as desired (offers to save the edit buffer) except
492 that it warns of the modified buffer just before exiting.
493 - C-c ' is as it should be (silent)
495 We've got the desired behaviour, at the cost of being forced to
496 assign a buffer-file-name to the edit buffer. The consequence is
497 that the edit buffer is considered to always be modified, since
498 a file of that name is never actually written to (doesn't even
499 exist). I couldn't see a way to trick emacs into believing that
500 the buffer was unmodified since last save. But in any case, I
501 think there's an argument that these modifications warnings are
502 a good thing, because one should not leave active edit buffers
503 around: you should always have exited with C-c ' first.
505 **** TODO Doesn't currently work with ess-load-file
506 ess-load-file contains these two lines
507 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
508 (let ((source-buffer (get-file-buffer filename)))
509 (if (ess-check-source filename)
510 (error "Buffer %s has not been saved" (buffer-name source-buffer)))
513 which have the effect of, in the course of saving, deleting the buffer
514 `source-buffer', and then attempting to use it subsequently. The only
515 solution I have thought of so far is submitting a patch to ess which
516 would, e.g. reverse the order of those two lines (perform the error
517 check outside the let binding).
519 In fact, even after doing that there are further problems generated by
520 the fact that the edit buffer has an associated filename for which the
521 file doesn't exist. I think this worked OK in the past when the edit
522 buffer had no associated filename. So this is a problem which needs
523 addressing. Maybe defadvice could be used on ess functions where
524 necessary to make org/org-babel play nicely with ess?
526 **** TODO C-x s steals focus
527 With two modified edit buffers open, make one of them the current
528 buffer and issue C-x s. It will offer to save both of them, but
529 the second one to be saved will become the current buffer at the
531 *** DONE name edit buffer according to #+srcname (and language?)
532 See above patch agains org.
533 *** DONE optionally evaluate header references when we switch to =*Org Edit Src*= buffer
534 That seems to imply that the header references need to be evaluated
535 and transformed into the target language object when we hit C-c ' to
536 enter the *Org Edit Src* buffer [DED]
538 Good point, I heartily agree that this should be supported [Eric]
540 (or at least before the first time we attempt to evaluate code in that
541 buffer -- I suppose there might be an argument for lazy evaluation, in
542 case someone hits C-c ' but is "just looking" and not actually
543 evaluating anything.) Of course if evaluating the reference is
544 computationally intensive then the user might have to wait before they
545 get the *Org Edit Src* buffer. [DED]
547 I fear that it may be hard to anticipate when the references will be
548 needed, some major-modes do on-the-fly evaluation while the buffer is
549 being edited. I think that we should either do this before the buffer
550 is opened or not at all, specifically I think we should resolve
551 references if the user calls C-c ' with a prefix argument. Does that
552 sound reasonable? [Eric]
556 [Dan] So now that we have org-src-mode and org-src-mode-hook, I guess
557 org-babel should do this by using the hook to make sure that, when C-c
558 C-' is issued on a source block, any references are resolved and
559 assignments are made in the appropriate session.
561 #+tblname: my-little-table
565 #+srcname: resolve-vars-on-edit
566 #+begin_src ruby :var table=my-little-table :results silent :session test
567 table.size.times.do |n|
572 *** TODO set buffer-local-process variables appropriately [DED]
573 I think something like this would be great. You've probably
574 already thought of this, but just to note it down: it would be really
575 nice if org-babel's notion of a buffer's 'session/process' played
576 nicely with ESS's notion of the buffer's session/process. ESS keeps
577 the current process name for a buffer in a buffer-local variable
578 ess-local-process-name. So one thing we will probably want to do is
579 make sure that the *Org Edit Src Example* buffer sets that variable
582 I had not thought of that, but I agree whole heartedly. [Eric]
584 Once this is done every variable should be able to dump regions into
585 their inferior-process buffer using major-mode functions.
586 *** REJECTED send code to inferior process
587 Another thought on this topic: I think we will want users to send
588 chunks of code to the interpreter from within the *Org Edit Src*
589 buffer, and I think that's what you have in mind already. In ESS that
590 is done using the ess-eval-* functions. [DED]
592 I think we can leave this up to the major-mode in the source code
593 buffer, as almost every source-code major mode will have functions for
594 doing things like sending regions to the inferior process. If
595 anything we might need to set the value of the buffer local inferior
596 process variable. [Eric]
598 *** DONE some possible requests/proposed changes for Carsten [4/4]
599 While I remember, some possible requests/proposed changes for Carsten
600 come to mind in that regard:
602 **** DONE Remap C-x C-s to save the source to the org buffer?
603 I've done this personally and I find it essential. I'm using
604 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
605 (defun org-edit-src-save ()
606 "Update the parent org buffer with the edited source code, save
607 the parent org-buffer, and return to the source code edit
616 (define-key org-exit-edit-mode-map "\C-x\C-s" 'org-edit-src-save)
620 I think this is great, but I think it should be implemented in the
623 **** DEFERRED Rename buffer and minor mode?
624 Something shorter than *Org Edit Src Example* for the buffer
625 name. org-babel is bringing org's source code interaction to a
626 level of maturity where the 'example' is no longer
627 appropriate. And if further keybindings are going to be added to
628 the minor mode then maybe org-edit-src-mode is a better name than
631 Maybe we should name the buffer with a combination of the source
632 code and the session. I think that makes sense.
634 [ES] Are you also suggesting a new org-edit-src minor mode?
635 [DED] org-exit-edit-mode is a minor mode that already exists:
637 Minor mode installing a single key binding, "C-c '" to exit special edit.
639 org-edit-src-save now has a binding in that mode, so I guess all
640 I'm saying at this stage is that it's a bit of a misnomer. But
641 perhaps we will also have more functionality to add to that minor
642 mode, making it even more of a misnomer. Perhaps something like
643 org-src-mode would be better.
644 **** DONE Changed minor mode name and added hooks
646 **** DONE a hook called when the src edit buffer is created
647 This should be implemented in the org-mode core
648 ** TODO resolve references to other org buffers/files
649 This would allow source blocks to call upon tables, source-blocks,
650 and results in other org buffers/files.
653 - [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el::TODO%20allow%20searching%20for%20names%20in%20other%20buffers][org-babel-ref.el:searching-in-other-buffers]]
654 - [[file:lisp/org-babel.el::defun%20org-babel%20find%20named%20result%20name][org-babel.el#org-babel-find-named-result]]
655 ** TODO resolve references to other non-org files
656 - tabular data in .csv, .tsv etc format
657 - files of interpreted code: anything stopping us giving such files
658 similar status to a source code block?
659 - Would be nice to allow org and non-org files to be remote
660 ** TODO Finalise behaviour regarding vector/scalar output
661 *** DONE Stop spaces causing vector output
662 This simple example of multilingual chaining produces vector output if
663 there are spaces in the message and scalar otherwise.
667 #+srcname: msg-from-R(msg=msg-from-python)
669 paste(msg, "und R", sep=" ")
673 : org-babel speaks elisp y python und R
675 #+srcname: msg-from-python(msg=msg-from-elisp)
680 #+srcname: msg-from-elisp(msg="org-babel speaks")
681 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
682 (concat msg " elisp")
684 ** TODO command line execution
685 Allow source code blocks to be called form the command line. This
686 will be easy using the =sbe= function in [[file:lisp/org-babel-table.el][org-babel-table.el]].
688 This will rely upon [[* resolve references to other buffers][resolve references to other buffers]].
690 ** TODO inline source code blocks [3/5]
691 Like the =\R{ code }= blocks
693 not sure what the format should be, maybe just something simple
694 like =src_lang[]{}= where lang is the name of the source code
695 language to be evaluated, =[]= is optional and contains any header
696 arguments and ={}= contains the code.
698 (see [[* (sandbox) inline source blocks][the-sandbox]])
700 *** DONE evaluation with \C-c\C-c
701 Putting aside the header argument issue for now we can just run these
702 with the following default header arguments
703 - =:results= :: silent
704 - =:exports= :: results
706 *** DONE inline exportation
707 Need to add an interblock hook (or some such) through org-exp-blocks
708 *** DONE header arguments
709 We should make it possible to use header arguments.
711 *** TODO fontification
712 we should color these blocks differently
714 *** TODO refine html exportation
715 should use a span class, and should show original source in tool-tip
716 ** TODO LoB: re-implement plotting and analysis functions from org-R
717 I'll do this soon, now that we things are a bit more settled and we
718 have column names in R.
719 ** PROPOSED allow `anonymous' function block with function call args?
720 My question here is simply whether we're going to allow
721 #+begin_src python(arg=ref)
725 but with preference given to
726 #+srcname blockname(arg=ref)
727 ** PROPOSED allow :result as synonym for :results?
728 ** PROPOSED allow 'output mode to return stdout as value?
729 Maybe we should allow this. In fact, if block x is called
730 with :results output, and it references blocks y and z, then
731 shouldn't the output of x contain a concatenation of the outputs of
732 y and z, together with x's own output? That would raise the
733 question of what happens if y is defined with :results output and z
734 with :results value. I guess z's (possibly vector/tabular) output
735 would be inside a literal example block containing the whole lot.
736 ** PROPOSED make tangle files read-only?
737 With a file-local variable setting, yea that makes sense. Maybe
738 the header should reference the related org-mode file.
739 ** PROPOSED Creating presentations
740 The [[mairix:t:@@9854.1246500519@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org][recent thread]] containing posts by Nick Dokos and Sebastian
741 Vaubán on exporting to beamer looked very interesting, but I
742 haven't had time to try it out yet. I would really like it if,
743 eventually, we can generate a presentation (with graphics generated
744 by code blocks) from the same org file that contains all the notes
745 and code etc. I just wanted that to be on record in this document;
746 I don't have anything more profound to say about it at the moment,
747 and I'm not sure to what extent it is an org-babel issue.
748 ** PROPOSED conversion between org-babel and noweb (e.g. .Rnw) format
749 I haven't thought about this properly. Just noting it down. What
750 Sweave uses is called "R noweb" (.Rnw).
752 I found a good description of noweb in the following article (see
753 the [[http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/lpsimp.pdf][pdf]]).
755 I think there are two parts to noweb, the construction of
756 documentation and the extraction of source-code (with notangle).
758 *documentation*: org-mode handles all of our documentation needs in
759 a manner that I believe is superior to noweb.
761 *source extraction* At this point I don't see anyone writing large
762 applications with 100% of the source code contained in org-babel
763 files, rather I see org-babel files containing things like
764 - notes with active code chunks
765 - interactive tutorials
766 - requirements documents with code running test suites
767 - and of course experimental reports with the code to run the
768 experiment, and perform analysis
770 Basically I think the scope of the programs written in org-babel
771 (at least initially) will be small enough that it wont require the
772 addition of a tangle type program to extract all of the source code
773 into a running application.
775 On the other hand, since we already have named blocks of source
776 code which reference other blocks on which they rely, this
777 shouldn't be too hard to implement either on our own, or possibly
778 relying on something like noweb/notangle.
780 ** PROPOSED support for passing paths to files between source blocks
781 Maybe this should be it's own result type (in addition to scalars and
782 vectors). The reason being that some source-code blocks (for example
783 ditaa or anything that results in the creation of a file) may want to
784 pass a file path back to org-mode which could then be inserted into
785 the org-mode buffer as a link to the file...
787 This would allow for display of images upon export providing
788 functionality similar to =org-exp-blocks= only in a more general
790 ** DEFERRED optional timestamp for output
791 *DEFERRED*: I'm deferring this in deference to the better caching
792 system proposed by Carsten. (see [[sha1-caching]])
794 Add option to place an (inactive) timestamp at the #+resname, to
795 record when that output was generated.
797 *** source code block timestamps (optional addition)
798 [Eric] If we did this would we then want to place a timestamp on the
799 source-code block, so that we would know if the results are
800 current or out of date? This would have the effect of caching the
801 results of calculations and then only re-running if the
802 source-code has changed. For the caching to work we would need to
803 check not only the timestamp on a source-code block, but also the
804 timestamps of any tables or source-code blocks referenced by the
805 original source-code block.
807 [Dan] I do remember getting frustrated by Sweave always having to
808 re-do everything, so this could be desirable, as long as it's easy
809 to over-ride of course. I'm not sure it should be the default
810 behaviour unless we are very confident that it works well.
812 **** maintaining source-code block timestamps
813 It may make sense to add a hook to `org-edit-special' which could
814 update the source-code blocks timestamp. If the user edits the
815 contents of a source-code block directly I can think of no
816 efficient way of maintaining the timestamp.
817 ** DEFERRED figure out how to handle errors during evaluation
818 I expect it will be hard to do this properly, but ultimately it
819 would be nice to be able to specify somewhere to receive STDERR,
820 and to be warned if it is non-empty.
822 Probably simpler in non-session evaluation than session? At least
823 the mechanism will be different I guess.
825 R has a try function, with error handling, along the lines of
826 python. I bet ruby does too. Maybe more of an issue for functional
827 style; in my proposed scripting style the error just gets dumped to
828 the org buffer and the user is thus alerted.
830 For now I think the current behavior of returning any error
831 messages generated by the source language is sufficient.
832 ** DEFERRED source-name visible in LaTeX and html exports
833 Maybe this should be done in backend specific manners.
835 The listings package may provide for naming a source-code block...
837 Actually there is no obvious simple and attractive way to implement
838 this. Closing this issue for now.
839 ** DEFERRED Support rownames and other org babel table features?
841 The full org table features are detailed in the manual [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-features.html#Advanced-features][here]].
844 Perhaps add a :rownames header arg. This would be an integer
845 (usually 1) which would have the effect of post-processing all the
846 variables created in the R session in the following way: if the
847 integer is j, set the row names to the contents of column j and
848 delete column j. Perhaps it is artificial to allow this integer to
849 take any value other than 1. The default would be nil which would
850 mean no such behaviour.
852 Actually I don't know about that. If multiple variables are passed
853 in, it's not appropriate to alter them all in the same way. The
854 rownames specification would normally refer to just one of the
855 variables. For now maybe just say this has to be done in R. E.g.
857 #+TBLNAME: sample-sizes
858 | collection | size | exclude | include | exclude2 | include2 |
859 |-----------------+------+---------+---------+----------+----------|
860 | 58C | 2936 | 8 | 2928 | 256 | 2680 |
861 | MS | 5852 | 771 | 5081 | 771 | 5081 |
862 | NBS | 2929 | 64 | 2865 | 402 | 2527 |
863 | POBI | 2717 | 1 | 2716 | 1 | 2716 |
864 | 58C+MS+NBS+POBI | | | 13590 | | 13004 |
865 #+TBLFM: @2$4=@2$2 - @2$3::@2$6=@2$2 - @2$5::@3$4=@3$2-@3$3::@3$6=@3$2 - @3$5::@4$4=@4$2 - @4$3::@4$6=@4$2 - @4$5::@5$4=@5$2-@5$3::@5$6=@5$2 - @5$5::@6$4=vsum(@2$4..@5$4)::@6$6=vsum(@2$6..@5$6)
867 #+srcname: make-size-table(size=sample-sizes)
869 rownames(size) <- size[,1]
875 [I don't think it's as problematic as this makes out]
876 This is non-trivial, but may be worth doing, in particular to
877 develop a nice framework for sending data to/from R.
879 In R, indexing vector elements, and rows and columns, using
880 strings rather than integers is an important part of the
882 - elements of a vector may have names
883 - matrices and data.frames may have "column names" and "row names"
884 which can be used for indexing
885 - In a data frame, row names *must* be unique
893 > mat <- matrix(1:4, nrow=2, ncol=2, dimnames=list(c("r1","r2"), c("c1","c2")))
898 > # The names are separate from the data: they do not interfere with operations on the data
905 > df <- data.frame(var1=1:26, var2=26:1, row.names=letters)
907 [1] 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
913 So it's tempting to try to provide support for this in org-babel. For example
914 - allow R to refer to columns of a :var reference by their names
915 - When appropriate, results from R appear in the org buffer with "named
918 However none (?) of the other languages we are currently supporting
919 really have a native matrix type, let alone "column names" or "row
920 names". Names are used in e.g. python and perl to refer to entries
923 It currently seems to me that support for this in org-babel would
924 require setting rules about when org tables are considered to have
925 named columns/fields, and ensuring that (a) languages with a notion
926 of named columns/fields use them appropriately and (b) languages
927 with no such notion do not treat then as data.
929 - Org allows something that *looks* like column names to be separated
931 - Org also allows a row to *function* as column names when special
932 markers are placed in the first column. An hline is unnecessary
933 (indeed hlines are purely cosmetic in org [correct?]
934 - Org does not have a notion of "row names" [correct?]
936 The full org table functionality exeplified [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-features.html#Advanced-features][here]] has features that
937 we would not support in e.g. R (like names for the row below).
939 **** Initial statement: allow tables with hline to be passed as args into R
940 This doesn't seem to work at the moment (example below). It would
941 also be nice to have a natural way for the column names of the org
942 table to become the column names of the R data frame, and to have
943 the option to specify that the first column is to be used as row
944 names in R (these must be unique). But this might require a bit of
949 | col1 | col2 | col3 |
950 |------+---------+------|
958 #+begin_src R :var tabel=egtable :colnames t
963 | "col1" | "col2" | "col3" |
964 |--------+-----------+--------|
966 | 4 | "schulte" | 6 |
969 Another example is in the [[*operations%20in%20on%20tables][grades example]].
970 ** DEFERRED use textConnection to pass tsv to R?
971 When passing args from the org buffer to R, the following route is
972 used: arg in buffer -> elisp -> tsv on file -> data frame in R. I
973 think it would be possible to avoid having to write to file by
974 constructing an R expression in org-babel-R-assign-elisp, something
977 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
978 (org-babel-R-input-command
979 (format "%s <- read.table(textConnection(\"%s\"), sep=\"\\t\", as.is=TRUE)"
980 name (orgtbl-to-tsv value '(:sep "\t" :fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field))))
983 I haven't tried to implement this yet as it's basically just
984 fiddling with something that works. The only reason for it I can
985 think of would be efficiency and I haven't tested that.
987 This Didn't work after an initial test. I still think this is a
988 good idea (I also think we should try to do something similar when
989 writing out results frmo R to elisp) however as it wouldn't result
990 in any functional changes I'm bumping it down to deferred for
995 #+tblname: quick-test
998 #+srcname: quick-test-src-blk
999 #+begin_src R :var vec=quick-test
1009 ** DEFERRED Rework Interaction with Running Processes [2/5]
1010 *** DONE robust to errors interrupting execution
1012 #+srcname: long-runner-ruby
1013 #+begin_src ruby :results silent
1015 :patton_is_an_grumpy
1018 *** DEFERRED use =C-g= keyboard-quit to push processing into the background
1019 This may be possible using the `run-with-timer' command.
1021 I have no idea how this could work...
1023 #+srcname: long-runner-ruby
1024 #+begin_src ruby :results silent
1026 :patton_is_an_grumpy
1029 *** TODO ability to select which of multiple sessions is being used
1030 Increasingly it is looking like we're going to want to run all
1031 source code blocks in comint buffer (sessions). Which will have
1033 1) allowing background execution
1034 2) maintaining state between source-blocks
1035 - allowing inline blocks w/o header arguments
1038 (like ess-switch-process in .R buffers)
1040 Maybe this could be packaged into a header argument, something
1041 like =:R_session= which could accept either the name of the
1042 session to use, or the string =prompt=, in which case we could use
1043 the =ess-switch-process= command to select a new process.
1045 *** TODO evaluation of shell code as background process?
1046 After C-c C-c on an R code block, the process may appear to
1047 block, but C-g can be used to reclaim control of the .org buffer,
1048 without interrupting the R evalution. However I believe this is not
1049 true of bash/sh evaluation. [Haven't tried other languages] Perhaps
1050 a solution is just to background the individual shell commands.
1052 The other languages (aside from emacs lisp) are run through the
1053 shell, so if we find a shell solution it should work for them as
1056 Adding an ampersand seems to be a supported way to run commands in
1057 the background (see [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecuteExternalCommand#toc4][external-commands]]). Although a more extensible
1058 solution may involve the use of the [[elisp:(progn (describe-function 'call-process-region) nil)][call-process-region]] function.
1060 Going to try this out in a new file [[file:lisp/org-babel-proc.el][org-babel-proc.el]]. This should
1061 contain functions for asynchronously running generic shell commands
1062 in the background, and then returning their input.
1064 **** partial update of org-mode buffer
1065 The sleekest solution to this may be using a comint buffer, and
1066 then defining a filter function which would incrementally interpret
1067 the results as they are returned, including insertion into the
1068 org-mode buffer. This may actually cause more problems than it is
1069 worth, what with the complexities of identifying the types of
1070 incrementally returned results, and the need for maintenance of a
1071 process marker in the org buffer.
1073 **** 'working' spinner
1074 It may be nice and not too difficult to place a spinner on/near the
1075 evaluating source code block
1077 *** TODO conversion of output from interactive shell, R (and python) sessions to org-babel buffers
1078 [DED] This would be a nice feature I think. Although an org-babel
1079 purist would say that it's working the wrong way round... After
1080 some interactive work in a *R* buffer, you save the buffer, maybe
1081 edit out some lines, and then convert it to org-babel format for
1082 posterity. Same for a shell session either in a *shell* buffer, or
1083 pasted from another terminal emulator. And python of course.
1084 ** DEFERRED improve the source-block snippet
1085 any real improvement seems somewhat beyond the ability of yasnippet
1088 [[file:~/src/emacs-starter-kit/src/snippets/text-mode/rst-mode/chap::name%20Chapter%20title][file:~/src/emacs-starter-kit/src/snippets/text-mode/rst-mode/chap::name Chapter title]]
1090 ,#name : Chapter title
1093 ${1:$(make-string (string-width text) ?\=)}
1098 [[file:snippets/org-mode/sb][sb -- snippet]]
1100 waiting for guidance from those more familiar with yasnippets
1102 ** REJECTED re-implement R evaluation using ess-command or ess-execute
1103 I don't have any complaints with the current R evaluation code or
1104 behaviour, but I think it would be good to use the ESS functions
1105 from a political point of view. Plus of course it has the normal
1106 benefits of an API (insulates us from any underlying changes etc). [DED]
1108 I'll look into this. I believe that I looked at and rejected these
1109 functions initially but now I can't remember why. I agree with
1110 your overall point about using API's where available. I will take
1111 a look back at these and either switch to using the ess commands,
1112 or at least articulate under this TODO the reasons for using our
1113 custom R-interaction commands. [Eric]
1117 Lets just replace =org-babel-R-input-command= with =ess-execute=.
1119 I tried this, and although it works in some situations, I find that
1120 =ess-command= will often just hang indefinitely without returning
1121 results. Also =ess-execute= will occasionally hang, and pops up
1122 the buffer containing the results of the command's execution, which
1123 is undesirable. For now these functions can not be used. Maybe
1124 someone more familiar with the ESS code can recommend proper usage
1125 of =ess-command= or some other lower-level function which could be
1126 used in place of [[file:lisp/org-babel-R.el::defun%20org-babel%20R%20input%20command%20command][org-babel-R-input-command]].
1130 #+begin_quote ess-command
1131 (ess-command COM &optional BUF SLEEP NO-PROMPT-CHECK)
1133 Send the ESS process command COM and delete the output
1134 from the ESS process buffer. If an optional second argument BUF exists
1135 save the output in that buffer. BUF is erased before use.
1136 COM should have a terminating newline.
1137 Guarantees that the value of .Last.value will be preserved.
1138 When optional third arg SLEEP is non-nil, `(sleep-for (* a SLEEP))'
1139 will be used in a few places where `a' is proportional to `ess-cmd-delay'.
1142 #+begin_quote ess-execute
1143 (ess-execute COMMAND &optional INVERT BUFF MESSAGE)
1145 Send a command to the ESS process.
1146 A newline is automatically added to COMMAND. Prefix arg (or second arg
1147 INVERT) means invert the meaning of
1148 `ess-execute-in-process-buffer'. If INVERT is 'buffer, output is
1149 forced to go to the process buffer. If the output is going to a
1150 buffer, name it *BUFF*. This buffer is erased before use. Optional
1151 fourth arg MESSAGE is text to print at the top of the buffer (defaults
1152 to the command if BUFF is not given.)
1155 *** out current setup
1157 1) The body of the R source code block is wrapped in a function
1158 2) The function is called inside of a =write.table= function call
1159 writing the results to a table
1160 3) The table is read using =org-table-import=
1161 ** DONE figure out how to handle graphic output
1163 This is listed under [[* graphical output][graphical output]] in out objectives.
1165 This should take advantage of the =:results file= option, and
1166 languages which almost always produce graphical output should set
1167 =:results file= to true by default (this is currently done for the
1168 gnuplot and ditaa languages). That would handle placing these results
1169 in the buffer. Then if there is a combination of =silent= and =file=
1170 =:results= headers we could drop the results to a temp buffer and pop
1173 Display of file results is addressed in the [[* =\C-c \C-o= to open results of source block][open-results-task]].
1175 I think this is done for now. With the ability of the file option it
1176 is now possible to save images directly to a file. Then calling
1177 =\C-c\C-o= with point on the source block will open the related
1180 *** R graphics to screen means session evaluation
1181 If R graphical output is going to screen then evaluation must be
1182 in a session, otherwise the graphics will disappear as soon as the
1185 *** Adding to a discussion started in email
1186 I'm not deeply wedded to these ideas, just noting them down. I'm
1187 probably just thinking of R and haven't really thought about how
1188 this fits with the other graphics-generating languages.
1190 > I used the approach below to get graphical file output
1191 > today, which is one idea at least. Maybe it could be linked up with
1192 > your :results file variable. (Or do we need a :results image for R?)
1195 I don't think we need a special image results variable, but I may be
1196 missing what the code below accomplishes. Would the task I added about
1197 adding org-open-at-point functionality to source code blocks take care
1200 Dan: I'm not sure. I think the ability for a script to generate both
1201 text and graphical output might be a natural expectation, at least for
1207 > #+srcname: cohort-scatter-plots-2d(org_babel_graphical_output_file="cohort-scatter-plots-2d.png")
1209 > if(exists("org_babel_output_file"))
1210 > png(filename=org_babel_graphical_output_file, width=1000, height=1000)
1211 > ## plotting code in here
1212 > if(exists("org_babel_graphical_output_file")) dev.off()
1215 Dan: Yes, the results :file option is nice for dealing with graphical
1216 output, and that could well be enough. Something based on the scheme
1217 above would have a couple of points in its favour:
1218 1. It's easy to switch between output going to on-screen graphics and
1219 output going to file: Output will go to screen unless a string variable
1220 with a standard name (e.g. ""org_babel_graphical_output_file"")
1221 exists in which case it will go to the file indicated by the value
1223 2. The block can return a result / script output, as well as produce
1226 In interactive use we might want to allow the user to choose between
1227 screen and file output. In non-interactive use such as export, it
1228 would be file output (subject to the :exports directives).
1229 ** DONE new results types (org, html, latex)
1230 Thanks to Tom Short for this recommendation.
1232 - raw or org :: in which case the results are implemented raw, unquoted
1233 into the org-mode file. This would also handle links as
1234 source block output.
1235 - html :: the results are inserted inside of a #+BEGIN_HTML block
1236 - latex :: the results are inserted inside of a #+BEGIN_LATEX block
1239 : #+begin_src R :session *R* :results org
1240 : cat("***** This is a table\n")
1241 : cat("| 1 | 2 | 3 |\n")
1242 : cat("[[http://google.com][Google it here]]\n"
1246 : ***** This is a table
1248 [[http://google.com][: Google it here]]
1250 We actually might want to remove the =#+resname= line if the results
1251 type is org-mode, not sure... Either way I don't think there is a
1252 good way to capture/remove org type results.
1255 #+srcname: latex-results
1256 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results latex
1257 "this should be inside of a LaTeX block"
1262 this should be inside of a LaTeX block
1266 #+srcname: html-results
1267 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results html
1268 "this should be inside of a HTML block
1281 this should be inside of a HTML block
1294 Added a =raw= results header argument, which will insert the results
1295 of a source-code block into an org buffer un-escaped. Also, if the
1296 results look like a table, then the table will be aligned.
1298 #+srcname: raw-table-demonstration
1299 #+begin_src ruby :results output raw
1300 puts "| root | square |"
1303 puts "| #{n} | #{n*n} |"
1321 Not sure how/if this would work, but it may be desirable.
1322 ** DONE org-bable-tangle: no default extension if one already exists
1323 ** DONE take default values for header args from properties
1324 Use file-wide and subtree wide properties to set default values for
1327 [DED] One thing I'm finding when working with R is that an org file
1328 may contain many source blocks, but that I just want to evaluate a
1329 subset of them. Typically this is in order to take up where I left
1330 off: I need to recreate a bunch of variables in the session
1331 environment. I'm thinking maybe we want to use a tag-based
1332 mechanism similar to :export: and :noexport: to control evaluation
1333 on a per-subtree basis.
1335 *** test-header with properties
1341 Ahh... as is so often the case, just had to wrap
1342 `org-babel-params-from-properties' in a `save-match-data' form.
1344 #+tblname: why-def-props-cause-probs
1347 #+srcname: default-props-implementation
1348 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle no :var my-lis=why-def-props-cause-probs :results silent
1349 (+ (length my-lis) def)
1352 ** DONE new reference syntax *inside* source code blocks
1353 This is from an email discussion on the org-mode mailing list with
1354 Sébastien. The goal here is to mimic the source-block reference style
1355 of Noweb. Upon export and/or tangle these references could be
1356 replaced with the actual body of the referenced source-code block.
1358 See the following for an example.
1360 #+srcname: ems-ruby-print-header
1362 puts "---------------------------header---------------------------"
1365 #+srcname: emacs-ruby-print-footer
1367 puts "---------------------------footer---------------------------"
1370 #+srcname: ems-ruby-print-message
1371 #+begin_src ruby :file ruby-noweb.rb
1372 # <<ems-ruby-print-header>>
1374 # <<ems-ruby-print-footer>>
1377 Upon export the previous source-code block would result in a file
1378 being generated at =ruby-noweb.rb= with the following contents
1380 : puts "---------------------------header---------------------------"
1382 : puts "---------------------------footer---------------------------"
1384 the body of a source-code block with all =<<src-name>>= references
1385 expanded can now be returned by `org-babel-expand-noweb-references'.
1386 This function is now called by default on all source-code blocks on
1389 ** DONE re-work tangling system
1390 Sometimes when tangling a file (e.g. when extracting elisp from a
1391 org-mode file) we want to get nearly every source-code block.
1393 Sometimes we want to only extract those source-code blocks which
1394 reference a indicate that they should be extracted (e.g. traditional
1395 literate programming along the Noweb model)
1397 I'm not sure how we can devise a single simple tangling system that
1398 naturally fits both of these use cases.
1401 the =tangle= header argument will default to =no= meaning source-code
1402 blocks will *not* be exported by default. In order for a source-code
1403 block to be tangled it needs to have an output file specified. This
1404 can happen in two ways...
1406 1) a file-wide default output file can be passed to `org-babel-tangle'
1407 which will then be used for all blocks
1408 2) if the value of the =tangle= header argument is anything other than
1409 =no= or =yes= then it is used as the file name
1411 #+srcname: test-new-tangling
1412 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
1413 (org-babel-load-file "test-tangle.org")
1414 (if (string= test-tangle-advert "use org-babel-tangle for all your emacs initialization files!!")
1422 ** DONE =\C-c \C-o= to open results of source block
1423 by adding a =defadvice= to =org-open-at-point= we can use the common
1424 =\C-c \C-o= keybinding to open the results of a source-code block.
1425 This would be especially useful for source-code blocks which generate
1426 graphical results and insert a file link as the results in the
1427 org-mode buffer. (see [[* figure out how to handle graphic output][TODO figure out how to handle graphic output]]).
1428 This could also act reasonably with other results types...
1430 - file :: use org-open-at-point to open the file
1431 - scalar :: open results unquoted in a new buffer
1432 - tabular :: export the table to a new buffer and open that buffer
1434 when called with a prefix argument the block is re-run
1436 #+srcname: task-opening-results-of-blocks
1437 #+begin_src ditaa :results replace :file blue.png :cmdline -r
1448 [[file:blue.png][blue.png]]
1450 #+srcname: task-open-vector
1451 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
1459 #+srcname: task-open-scalar
1460 #+begin_src ruby :results output
1476 ** DONE Stop spaces causing vector output
1477 This simple example of multilingual chaining produces vector output if
1478 there are spaces in the message and scalar otherwise.
1482 #+srcname: msg-from-R(msg=msg-from-python)
1484 paste(msg, "und R", sep=" ")
1488 : org-babel speaks elisp y python und R
1490 #+srcname: msg-from-python(msg=msg-from-elisp)
1495 #+srcname: msg-from-elisp(msg="org-babel speaks")
1496 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
1497 (concat msg " elisp")
1500 ** DONE add =:tangle= family of header arguments
1502 - no :: don't include source-code block when tangling
1503 - yes :: do include source-code block when tangling
1505 this is tested in [[file:test-tangle.org::*Emacs%20Lisp%20initialization%20stuff][test-tangle.org]]
1507 ** DONE extensible library of callable source blocks
1509 This is covered by the [[file:library-of-babel.org][Library of Babel]], which will contain
1510 ready-made source blocks designed to carry out useful common tasks.
1511 *** Initial statement [Eric]
1512 Much of the power of org-R seems to be in it's helper functions for
1513 the quick graphing of tables. Should we try to re-implement these
1514 functions on top of org-babel?
1516 I'm thinking this may be useful both to add features to org-babel-R and
1517 also to potentially suggest extensions of the framework. For example
1518 one that comes to mind is the ability to treat a source-code block
1519 like a function which accepts arguments and returns results. Actually
1520 this can be it's own TODO (see [[* source blocks as functions][source blocks as functions]]).
1521 *** Objectives [Dan]
1522 - We want to provide convenient off-the-shelf actions
1523 (e.g. plotting data) that make use of our new code evaluation
1524 environment but do not require any actual coding.
1525 *** Initial Design proposal [Dan]
1526 - *Input data* will be specified using the same mechanism as :var
1527 references, thus the input data may come from a table, or
1528 another source block, and it is initially available as an elisp
1530 - We introduce a new #+ line, e.g. #+BABELDO. C-c C-c on that
1531 line will apply an *action* to the referenced data.
1532 - *Actions correspond to source blocks*: our library of available
1533 actions will be a library of org-babel source blocks. Thus the
1534 code for executing an action, and the code for dealing with the
1535 output of the action will be the same code as for executing
1536 source blocks in general
1537 - Optionally, the user can have the relevant source block inserted
1538 into the org buffer after the (say) #+BABELDO line. This will
1539 allow the user to fine tune the action by modifying the code
1540 (especially useful for plots).
1541 - So maybe a #+BABELDO line will have header args
1542 - :data (a reference to a table or source code block)
1543 - :action (or should that be :srcname?) which will be something
1544 like :action pie-chart, referring to a source block which will
1545 be executed with the :data referent passed in using a :var arg.
1546 - :showcode or something controlling whether to show the code
1548 *** Modification to design
1549 I'm implementing this, at least initially, as a new interpreter
1550 named 'babel', which has an empty body. 'babel' blocks take
1551 a :srcname header arg, and look for the source-code block with
1552 that name. They then execute the referenced block, after first
1553 appending their own header args on to the target block's header
1556 If the target block is in the library of babel (a.o.t. e.g. the
1557 current buffer), then the code in the block will refer to the
1558 input data with a name dictated by convention (e.g. __data__
1559 (something which is syntactically legal in all languages...). Thus
1560 the babel block will use a :var __data__ = whatever header arg to
1561 reference the data to be plotted.
1563 ** DONE Column names in R input/output
1564 This has been implemented: Automatic on input to R; optional in
1565 output. Note that this equates column names with the header row in
1566 an org table; whereas org actually has a mechanism whereby a row
1567 with a '!' in the first field defines column names. I have not
1568 attempted to support these org table mechanisms yet. See [[*Support%20rownames%20and%20other%20org%20babel%20table%20features][this
1569 DEFERRED todo item]].
1570 ** DONE use example block for large amounts of stdout output?
1571 We're currently `examplizing' with : at the beginning of the line,
1572 but should larger amounts of output be in a
1573 \#+begin_example...\#+end_example block? What's the cutoff? > 1
1574 line? This would be nice as it would allow folding of lengthy
1575 output. Sometimes one will want to see stdout just to check
1576 everything looks OK, and then fold it away.
1578 I'm addressing this in branch 'examplizing-output'.
1579 Yea, that makes sense. (either that or allow folding of large
1580 blocks escaped with =:=).
1582 Proposed cutoff of 10 lines, we can save this value in a user
1583 customizable variable.
1584 *** DONE add ability to remove such results
1585 ** DONE exclusive =exports= params
1587 #+srcname: implement-export-exclusivity
1594 ** DONE LoB: allow output in buffer
1595 ** DONE allow default header arguments by language
1596 org-babel-default-header-args:lang-name
1598 An example of when this is useful is for languages which always return
1599 files as their results (e.g. [[*** ditaa][ditaa]], and [[*** gnuplot][gnuplot]]).
1600 ** DONE singe-function tangling and loading elisp from literate org-mode file [3/3]
1602 This function should tangle the org-mode file for elisp, and then call
1603 `load-file' on the resulting tangled file.
1605 #+srcname: test-loading-embedded-emacs-lisp
1606 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results replace
1607 (setq test-tangle-advert nil)
1608 (setq test-tangle-loading nil)
1609 (setq results (list :before test-tangle-loading test-tangle-advert))
1610 (org-babel-load-file "test-tangle.org")
1611 (setq results (list (list :after test-tangle-loading test-tangle-advert) results))
1612 (delete-file "test-tangle.el")
1616 #+resname: test-loading-embedded-emacs-lisp
1617 | :before | nil | nil |
1618 | :after | "org-babel tangles" | "use org-babel-tangle for all your emacs initialization files!!" |
1620 *** DONE add optional language limiter to org-babel-tangle
1621 This should check to see if there is any need to re-export
1623 *** DONE ensure that org-babel-tangle returns the path to the tangled file(s)
1625 #+srcname: test-return-value-of-org-babel-tangle
1626 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results replace
1627 (mapcar #'file-name-nondirectory (org-babel-tangle-file "test-tangle.org" "emacs-lisp"))
1631 | "test-tangle.el" |
1633 *** DONE only tangle the file if it's actually necessary
1634 ** DONE add a function to jump to a source-block by name
1635 I've had an initial stab at that in org-babel-find-named-block
1636 (library-of-babel branch).
1638 At the same time I introduced org-babel-named-src-block-regexp, to
1639 match src-blocks with srcname.
1641 This is now working with the command
1642 `org-babel-goto-named-source-block', all we need is a good key
1645 ** DONE add =:none= session argument (for purely functional execution) [4/4]
1646 This would allow source blocks to be run in their own new process
1648 - These blocks could then also be run in the background (since we can
1649 detach and just wait for the process to signal that it has terminated)
1650 - We wouldn't be drowning in session buffers after running the tests
1651 - we can re-use much of the session code to run in a more /functional/
1654 While session provide a lot of cool features, like persistent
1655 environments, [[* DONE function to bring up inferior-process buffer][pop-to-session]], and hints at exportation for
1656 org-babel-tangle, they also have some down sides and I'm thinking that
1657 session-based execution maybe shouldn't be the default behavior.
1659 Down-sides to sessions
1660 - *much* more complicated than functional evaluation
1661 - maintaining the state of the session has weird issues
1662 - waiting for evaluation to finish
1663 - prompt issues like [[* TODO weird escaped characters in shell prompt break shell evaluation][shell-prompt-escapes-bug]]
1664 - can't run in background
1665 - litter emacs with session buffers
1669 #+srcname: ruby-task-no-session
1670 #+begin_src ruby :results replace output
1676 #+resname: ruby-task-no-session
1681 #+srcname: task-python-none-session
1682 #+begin_src python :session none :results replace value
1688 #+resname: task-python-none-session
1693 #+srcname: task-session-none-sh
1694 #+begin_src sh :results replace
1699 #+resname: task-session-none-sh
1705 #+srcname: task-no-session-R
1706 #+begin_src R :results replace output
1713 #+resname: task-no-session-R
1717 ** DONE fully purge org-babel-R of direct comint interaction
1718 try to remove all code under the [[file:lisp/org-babel-R.el::functions%20for%20evaluation%20of%20R%20code][;; functions for evaluation of R code]] line
1720 ** DONE Create objects in top level (global) environment [5/5]
1723 *** initial requirement statement [DED]
1724 At the moment, objects created by computations performed in the
1725 code block are evaluated in the scope of the
1726 code-block-function-body and therefore disappear when the code
1727 block is evaluated {unless you employ some extra trickery like
1728 assign('name', object, env=globalenv()) }. I think it will be
1729 desirable to also allow for a style wherein objects that are
1730 created in one code block persist in the R global environment and
1731 can be re-used in a separate block.
1733 This is what Sweave does, and while I'm not saying we have to be
1734 the same as Sweave, it wouldn't be hard for us to provide the same
1735 behaviour in this case; if we don't, we risk undeservedly being
1736 written off as an oddity by some.
1738 IOW one aspect of org-babel is that of a sort of functional
1739 meta-programming language. This is crazy, in a very good
1740 way. Nevertheless, wrt R I think there's going to be a lot of value
1741 in providing for a working style in which the objects are stored in
1742 the R session, rather than elisp/org buffer. This will be a very
1743 familiar working style to lots of people.
1745 There are no doubt a number of different ways of accomplishing
1746 this, the simplest being a hack like adding
1749 for(objname in ls())
1750 assign(objname, get(objname), envir=globalenv())
1753 to the source code block function body. (Maybe wrap it in an on.exit() call).
1755 However this may deserve to be thought about more carefully, perhaps
1756 with a view to having a uniform approach across languages. E.g. shell
1757 code blocks have the same semantics at the moment (no persistence of
1758 variables across code blocks), because the body is evaluated in a new
1759 bash shell process rather than a running shell. And I guess the same
1760 is true for python. However, in both these cases, you could imagine
1761 implementing the alternative in which the body is evaluated in a
1762 persistent interactive session. It's just that it's particularly
1763 natural for R, seeing as both ESS and org-babel evaluate commands in a
1764 single persistent R session.
1768 Thanks for bringing this up. I think you are absolutely correct that we
1769 should provide support for a persistent environment (maybe called a
1770 *session*) in which to evaluate code blocks. I think the current setup
1771 demonstrates my personal bias for a functional style of programming
1772 which is certainly not ideal in all contexts.
1774 While the R function you mention does look like an elegant solution, I
1775 think we should choose an implementation that would be the same across
1776 all source code types. Specifically I think we should allow the user to
1777 specify an optional *session* as a header variable (when not present we
1778 assume a default session for each language). The session name could be
1779 used to name a comint buffer (like the *R* buffer) in which all
1780 evaluation would take place (within which variables would retain their
1781 values --at least once I remove some of the functional method wrappings
1782 currently in place-- ).
1784 This would allow multiple environments to be used in the same buffer,
1785 and once this setup was implemented we should be able to fairly easily
1786 implement commands for jumping between source code blocks and the
1787 related session buffers, as well as for dumping the last N commands from
1788 a session into a new or existing source code block.
1790 Please let me know if you foresee any problems with this proposed setup,
1791 or if you think any parts might be confusing for people coming from
1792 Sweave. I'll hopefully find some time to work on this later in the
1795 *** can functional and interpreted/interactive models coexist?
1797 Even though both of these use the same =*R*= buffer the value of =a=
1798 is not preserved because it is assigned inside of a functional
1801 #+srcname: task-R-sessions
1808 #+srcname: task-R-same-session
1813 This functional wrapper was implemented in order to efficiently return
1814 the results of the execution of the entire source code block. However
1815 it inhibits the evaluation of source code blocks in the top level,
1816 which would allow for persistence of variable assignment across
1817 evaluations. How can we allow *both* evaluation in the top level, and
1818 efficient capture of the return value of an entire source code block
1819 in a language independent manner?
1821 Possible solutions...
1822 1) we can't so we will have to implement two types of evaluation
1823 depending on which is appropriate (functional or imperative)
1824 2) we remove the functional wrapper and parse the source code block
1825 into it's top level statements (most often but not always on line
1826 breaks) so that we can isolate the final segment which is our
1828 3) we add some sort of "#+return" line to the code block
1829 4) we take advantage of each languages support for meta-programming
1830 through =eval= type functions, and use said to evaluate the entire
1831 blocks in such a way that their environment can be combined with the
1832 global environment, and their results are still captured.
1833 5) I believe that most modern languages which support interactive
1834 sessions have support for a =last_result= type function, which
1835 returns the result of the last input without re-calculation. If
1836 widely enough present this would be the ideal solution to a
1837 combination of functional and imperative styles.
1839 None of these solutions seem very desirable, but for now I don't see
1840 what else would be possible.
1842 Of these options I was leaning towards (1) and (4) but now believe
1843 that if it is possible option (5) will be ideal.
1845 **** (1) both functional and imperative evaluation
1847 - can take advantage of built in functions for sending regions to the
1849 - retains the proven tested and working functional wrappers
1852 - introduces the complication of keeping track of which type of
1853 evaluation is best suited to a particular context
1854 - the current functional wrappers may require some changes in order to
1855 include the existing global context
1857 **** (4) exploit language meta-programming constructs to explicitly evaluate code
1859 - only one type of evaluation
1862 - some languages may not have sufficient meta-programming constructs
1864 **** (5) exploit some =last_value= functionality if present
1866 Need to ensure that most languages have such a function, those without
1867 will simply have to implement their own similar solution...
1869 | language | =last_value= function |
1870 |------------+-----------------------------|
1874 | shell | see [[* last command for shells][last command for shells]] |
1875 | emacs-lisp | see [[* emacs-lisp will be a special case][special-case]] |
1877 #+srcname: task-last-value
1882 ***** last command for shells
1883 Do this using the =tee= shell command, and continually pipe the output
1886 Got this idea from the following [[http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2004-01/0898.html][email-thread]].
1888 suggested from mailing list
1890 #+srcname: bash-save-last-output-to-file
1894 bash -c "$line" | tee /tmp/last.out1
1895 mv /tmp/last.out1 /tmp/last.out
1899 another proposed solution from the above thread
1901 #+srcname: bash-save-in-variable
1904 # so - Save Output. Saves output of command in OUT shell variable.
1914 "^M": " | tee /tmp/h_lastcmd.out ^[k"
1917 export __=/tmp/h_lastcmd.out
1919 If you try it, Alt-k will stand for the old Enter; use "command $__" to
1920 access the last output.
1926 Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
1929 ***** emacs-lisp will be a special case
1930 While it is possible for emacs-lisp to be run in a console type
1931 environment (see the =elim= function) it is *not* possible to run
1932 emacs-lisp in a different *session*. Meaning any variable set top
1933 level of the console environment will be set *everywhere* inside
1934 emacs. For this reason I think that it doesn't make any sense to
1935 worry about session support for emacs-lisp.
1937 *** Further thoughts on 'scripting' vs. functional approaches
1939 These are just thoughts, I don't know how sure I am about this.
1940 And again, perhaps I'm not saying anything very radical, just that
1941 it would be nice to have some options supporting things like
1942 receiving text output in the org buffer.
1944 I can see that you've already gone some way down the road towards
1945 the 'last value' approach, so sorry if my comments come rather
1946 late. I am concerned that we are not giving sufficient attention
1947 to stdout / the text that is returned by the interpreters. In
1948 contrast, many of our potential users will be accustomed to a
1949 'scripting' approach, where they are outputting text at various
1950 points in the code block, not just at the end. I am leaning
1951 towards thinking that we should have 2 modes of evaluation:
1952 'script' mode, and 'functional' mode.
1954 In script mode, evaluation of a code block would result in *all*
1955 text output from that code block appearing as output in the org
1956 buffer, presumably as an #+begin_example...#+end_example. There
1957 could be an :echo option controlling whether the input commands
1958 also appear in the output. [This is like Sweave].
1960 In functional mode, the *result* of the code block is available as
1961 an elisp object, and may appear in the org buffer as an org
1962 table/string, via the mechanisms you have developed already.
1964 One thing I'm wondering about is whether, in script mode, there
1965 simply should not be a return value. Perhaps this is not so
1966 different from what exists: script mode would be new, and what
1967 exists currently would be functional mode.
1969 I think it's likely that, while code evaluation will be exciting
1970 to people, a large majority of our users in a large majority of
1971 their usage will not attempt to actually use the return value from
1972 a source code block in any meaningful way. In that case, it seems
1973 rather restrictive to only allow them to see output from the end
1976 Instead I think the most accessible way to introduce org-babel to
1977 people, at least while they are learning it, is as an immensely
1978 powerful environment in which to embed their 'scripts', which now
1979 also allows them to 'run' their 'scripts'. Especially as such
1980 people are likely to be the least capable of the user-base, a
1981 possible design-rule would be to make the scripting style of usage
1982 easy (default?), perhaps requiring a special option to enable a
1983 functional style. Those who will use the functional style won't
1984 have a problem understanding what's going on, whereas the 'skript
1985 kiddies' might not even know the syntax for defining a function in
1986 their language of choice. And of course we can allow the user to
1987 set a variable in their .emacs controlling the preference, so that
1988 functional users are not inconveniennced by having to provide
1989 header args the whole time.
1991 Please don't get the impression that I am down-valuing the
1992 functional style of org-babel. I am constantly horrified at the
1993 messy 'scripts' that my colleagues produce in perl or R or
1994 whatever! Nevertheless that seems to be how a lot of people work.
1996 I think you were leaning towards the last-value approach because
1997 it offered the possibility of unified code supporting both the
1998 single evaluation environment and the functional style. If you
1999 agree with any of the above then perhaps it will impact upon this
2000 and mean that the code in the two branches has to differ a bit. In
2001 that case, functional mode could perhaps after all evaluate each
2002 code block in its own environment, thus (re)approaching 'true'
2003 functional programming (side-effects are hard to achieve).
2007 echo "There are `wc -l files` files in this directory"
2011 *** even more thoughts on evaluation, results, models and options
2013 Thanks Dan, These comments are invaluable.
2015 What do you think about this as a new list of priorities/requirements
2016 for the execution of source-code blocks.
2019 1) we want the evaluation of the source code block to take place in a
2020 session which can persist state (variables, current directory,
2022 2) source code blocks can specify their session with a header argument
2023 3) each session should correspond to an Emacs comint buffer so that the
2024 user can drop into the session and experiment with live code
2027 1) each source-code block generates some form of results which (as
2028 we have already implemented) is transfered into emacs-lisp
2029 after which it can be inserted into the org-mode buffer, or
2030 used by other source-code blocks
2031 2) when the results are translated into emacs-lisp, forced to be
2032 interpreted as a scalar (dumping their raw values into the
2033 org-mode buffer), as a vector (which is often desirable with R
2034 code blocks), or interpreted on the fly (the default option).
2035 Note that this is very nearly currently implemented through the
2036 [[* DONE results-type header (vector/file)][results-type-header]].
2037 3) there should be *two* means of collecting results from the
2038 execution of a source code block. *Either* the value of the
2039 last statement of the source code block, or the collection of
2040 all that has been passed to STDOUT during the evaluation.
2042 **** header argument or return line (*header argument*)
2044 Rather than using a header argument to specify how the return value
2045 should be passed back, I'm leaning towards the use of a =#+RETURN=
2046 line inside the block. If such a line *is not present* then we
2047 default to using STDOUT to collect results, but if such a line *is
2048 present* then we use it's value as the results of the block. I
2049 think this will allow for the most elegant specification between
2050 functional and script execution. This also cleans up some issues
2051 of implementation and finding which statement is the last
2054 Having given this more thought, I think a header argument is
2055 preferable. The =#+return:= line adds new complicating syntax for
2056 something that does little more than we would accomplish through
2057 the addition of a header argument. The only benefit being that we
2058 know where the final statement starts, which is not an issue in
2059 those languages which contain 'last value' operators.
2061 new header =:results= arguments
2062 - script :: explicitly states that we want to use STDOUT to
2063 initialize our results
2064 - return_last :: stdout is ignored instead the *value* of the final
2065 statement in the block is returned
2066 - echo :: means echo the contents of the source-code block along
2067 with the results (this implies the *script* =:results=
2070 *** DONE rework evaluation lang-by-lang [4/4]
2072 This should include...
2073 - functional results working with the comint buffer
2075 - script :: return the output of STDOUT
2076 - write a macro which runs the first redirection, executes the
2077 body, then runs the second redirection
2078 - last :: return the value of the last statement
2081 - sessions in comint buffers
2083 **** DONE Ruby [4/4]
2084 - [X] functional results working with comint
2085 - [X] script results
2086 - [X] ensure scalar/vector results args are taken into consideration
2087 - [X] ensure callable by other source block
2089 #+srcname: ruby-use-last-output
2090 #+begin_src ruby :results replace
2097 #+resname: ruby-use-last-output
2100 #+srcname: task-call-use-last-output
2101 #+begin_src ruby :var last=ruby-use-last-output :results replace
2102 last.flatten.size + 1
2105 #+resname: task-call-use-last-output
2110 #+srcname: first-ruby-session-task
2111 #+begin_src ruby :session schulte :results silent
2115 #+srcname: second-ruby-session-task
2116 #+begin_src ruby :session schulte :results silent
2120 #+srcname: without-the-right-session
2121 #+begin_src ruby :results silent
2127 - [X] functional results working with comint
2128 - [X] script results
2129 - [X] ensure scalar/vector results args are taken into consideration
2130 - [X] ensure callable by other source block
2132 To redirect output to a file, you can use the =sink()= command.
2135 #+begin_src R :results value vector silent
2142 #+srcname: task-R-use-other-output
2143 #+begin_src R :var twoentyseven=task_R_B() :results replace value
2148 #+resname: task-R-use-other-output
2151 **** DONE Python [4/4]
2152 - [X] functional results working with comint
2153 - [X] script results
2154 - [X] ensure scalar/vector results args are taken into consideration
2155 - [X] ensure callable by other source block
2157 #+srcname: task-new-eval-for-python
2158 #+begin_src python :results silent output scalar
2164 #+srcname: task-use-new-eval
2165 #+begin_src python :var tasking=task-new-eval-for-python() :results replace
2169 #+resname: task-use-new-eval
2172 **** DONE Shells [4/4]
2173 - [X] functional results working with comint
2174 - [X] script results
2175 - [X] ensure scalar/vector results args are taken into consideration
2176 - [X] ensure callable by other source block
2178 #+srcname: task-shell-new-evaluation
2179 #+begin_src sh :results silent value scalar
2184 #+srcname: task-call-other-shell
2185 #+begin_src sh :var other=task-shell-new-evaluation() :results replace scalar
2186 echo $other ' is the old date'
2189 #+resname: task-call-other-shell
2190 : $ Fri Jun 12 13:08:37 PDT 2009 is the old date
2192 *** DONE implement a *session* header argument [4/4]
2193 =:session= header argument to override the default *session* buffer
2197 #+srcname: task-ruby-named-session
2198 #+begin_src ruby :session schulte :results replace
2199 schulte = :in_schulte
2202 #+resname: task-ruby-named-session
2205 #+srcname: another-in-schulte
2206 #+begin_src ruby :session schulte
2210 #+resname: another-in-schulte
2217 #+srcname: python-session-task
2218 #+begin_src python :session what :results silent
2222 #+srcname: python-get-from-session
2223 #+begin_src python :session what :results replace
2227 #+resname: python-get-from-session
2232 #+srcname: task-shell-sessions
2233 #+begin_src sh :session what
2237 #+srcname: task-shell-sessions-what
2238 #+begin_src sh :session what :results replace
2242 #+resname: task-shell-sessions-what
2247 #+srcname: task-R-session
2248 #+begin_src R :session what :results replace
2254 #+resname: task-R-session
2257 #+srcname: another-task-R-session
2258 #+begin_src R :session what :results replace
2262 *** DONE function to bring up inferior-process buffer [4/4]
2264 This should be callable from inside of a source-code block in an
2265 org-mode buffer. It should evaluate the header arguments, then bring
2266 up the inf-proc buffer using =pop-to-buffer=.
2268 For lack of a better place, lets add this to the `org-metadown-hook'
2271 To give this a try, place the cursor on a source block with variables,
2272 (optionally git a prefix argument) then hold meta and press down.
2276 #+srcname: task-ruby-pop-to-session
2277 #+begin_src ruby :var num=9 :var another="something else"
2278 num.times{|n| puts another}
2283 #+srcname: task-python-pop-to-session
2284 #+begin_src python :var num=9 :var another="something else"
2289 #+srcname: task-R-pop-to-session
2290 #+begin_src R :var a=9 :var b=8
2296 #+srcname: task-shell-pop-sessions
2297 #+begin_src sh :var NAME="eric"
2301 *** DEFERRED function to dump last N lines from inf-proc buffer into the current source block
2303 Callable with a prefix argument to specify how many lines should be
2304 dumped into the source-code buffer.
2306 *** REJECTED comint notes
2308 Implementing comint integration in [[file:lisp/org-babel-comint.el][org-babel-comint.el]].
2311 - handling of outputs
2312 - split raw output from process by prompts
2313 - a ring of the outputs, buffer-local, `org-babel-comint-output-ring'
2314 - a switch for dumping all outputs to a buffer
2315 - inputting commands
2317 Lets drop all this language specific stuff, and just use
2318 org-babel-comint to split up our outputs, and return either the last
2319 value of an execution or the combination of values from the
2322 **** comint filter functions
2323 : ;; comint-input-filter-functions hook process-in-a-buffer
2324 : ;; comint-output-filter-functions hook function modes.
2325 : ;; comint-preoutput-filter-functions hook
2326 : ;; comint-input-filter function ...
2328 #+srcname: obc-filter-ruby
2329 #+begin_src ruby :results last
2337 ** DONE Remove protective commas from # comments before evaluating
2338 org inserts protective commas in front of ## comments in language
2339 modes that use them. We need to remove them prior to sending code
2342 #+srcname: testing-removal-of-protective-comas
2344 ,# this one might break it??
2348 ** DONE pass multiple reference arguments into R
2349 Can we do this? I wasn't sure how to supply multiple 'var' header
2350 args. Just delete this if I'm being dense.
2352 This should be working, see the following example...
2354 #+srcname: two-arg-example
2355 #+begin_src R :var n=2 :var m=8
2359 #+resname: two-arg-example
2362 ** DONE ensure that table ranges work
2363 when a table range is passed to org-babel as an argument, it should be
2364 interpreted as a vector.
2367 | 2 | 3 | Fixnum:1 |
2368 | 3 | 4 | Array:123456 |
2372 #+TBLFM: @1$3='(sbe simple-sbe-example (n 4))::@2$3='(sbe task-table-range (n @1$1..@6$1))::@3$3='(sbe task-table-range (n (@1$1..@6$1)))
2374 #+srcname: simple-sbe-example
2375 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
2379 #+srcname: task-table-range
2380 #+begin_src ruby :var n=simple-sbe-example
2384 #+srcname: simple-results
2385 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var n=task-table-range(n=(1 2 3))
2389 #+resname: simple-results
2392 #+srcname: task-arr-referent
2393 #+begin_src ruby :var ar=(1 2 3)
2397 #+resname: task-arr-referent
2400 ** DONE global variable indicating default to vector output
2401 how about an alist... =org-babel-default-header-args= this may already
2402 exist... just execute the following and all source blocks will default
2405 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
2406 (setq org-babel-default-header-args '((:results . "vector")))
2409 ** DONE name named results if source block is named
2410 currently this isn't happening although it should be
2412 #+srcname: test-naming-named-source-blocks
2413 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
2417 #+resname: test-naming-named-source-blocks
2419 ** DONE (simple caching) check for named results before source blocks
2420 see the TODO comment in [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el::TODO%20This%20should%20explicitly%20look%20for%20resname%20lines%20before][org-babel-ref.el#org-babel-ref-resolve-reference]]
2421 ** DONE set =:results silent= when eval with prefix argument
2423 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
2426 ** DONE results-type header (vector/file) [3/3]
2427 In response to a point in Dan's email. We should allow the user to
2428 force scalar or vector results. This could be done with a header
2429 argument, and the default behavior could be controlled through a
2430 configuration variable.
2432 #+srcname: task-trivial-vector
2433 #+begin_src ruby :results replace vector
2440 since it doesn't make sense to turn a vector into a scalar, lets
2441 just add a two values...
2443 - vector :: forces the results to be a vector (potentially 1 dimensional)
2444 - file :: this throws an error if the result isn't a string, and
2445 tries to treat it as a path to a file.
2447 I'm just going to cram all of these into the =:results= header
2448 argument. Then if we allow multiple header arguments it should
2449 work out, for example one possible header argument string could be
2450 =:results replace vector file=, which would *replace* any existing
2451 results forcing the results into an org-mode table, and
2452 interpreting any strings as file paths.
2454 *** DONE multiple =:results= headers
2456 #+srcname: multiple-result-headers
2457 #+begin_src ruby :results replace silent
2463 *** DONE file result types
2464 When inserting into an org-mode buffer create a link with the path
2465 being the value, and optionally the display being the
2466 =file-name-nondirectory= if it exists.
2468 #+srcname: task-file-result
2469 #+begin_src python :results replace file
2474 [[something][something]]
2477 This will be useful because blocks like =ditaa= and =dot= can return
2478 the string path of their files, and can add =file= to their results
2481 *** DONE vector result types
2483 #+srcname: task-force-results
2484 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results vector
2491 ** DONE results name
2492 In order to do this we will need to start naming our results.
2493 Since the source blocks are named with =#+srcname:= lines we can
2494 name results with =#+resname:= lines (if the source block has no
2495 name then no name is given to the =#+resname:= line on creation,
2496 otherwise the name of the source block is used).
2498 This will have the additional benefit of allowing results and
2499 source blocks to be located in different places in a buffer (and
2500 eventually in different buffers entirely).
2502 #+srcname: developing-resnames
2503 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
2507 Once source blocks are able to find their own =#+resname:= lines
2510 #+srcname: sbe-w-new-results
2511 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results replace
2512 (sbe "developing-resnames")
2518 *** TODO change the results insertion functions to use these lines
2520 *** TODO teach references to resolve =#+resname= lines.
2522 ** DONE org-babel tests org-babel [1/1]
2523 since we are accumulating this nice collection of source-code blocks
2524 in the sandbox section we should make use of them as unit tests.
2525 What's more, we should be able to actually use org-babel to run these
2528 We would just need to cycle over every source code block under the
2529 sandbox, run it, and assert that the return value is equal to what we
2532 I have the feeling that this should be possible using only org-babel
2533 functions with minimal or no additional elisp. It would be very cool
2534 for org-babel to be able to test itself.
2536 This is now done, see [[* Tests]].
2538 *** DEFERRED org-babel assertions (may not be necessary)
2539 These could be used to make assertions about the results of a
2540 source-code block. If the assertion fails then the point could be
2541 moved to the block, and error messages and highlighting etc... could
2544 ** DONE make C-c C-c work anywhere within source code block?
2545 This seems like it would be nice to me, but perhaps it would be
2546 inefficient or ugly in implementation? I suppose you could search
2547 forward, and if you find #+end_src before you find #+begin_src,
2548 then you're inside one. [DED]
2550 Agreed, I think inside of the =#+srcname: line= would be useful as
2553 #+srcname: testing-out-cc
2554 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
2558 ** DONE integration with org tables
2559 We should make it easy to call org-babel source blocks from org-mode
2560 table formulas. This is practical now that it is possible to pass
2561 arguments to org-babel source blocks.
2563 See the related [[* (sandbox) integration w/org tables][sandbox]] header for tests/examples.
2565 *** digging in org-table.el
2566 In the past [[file:~/src/org/lisp/org-table.el::org%20table%20el%20The%20table%20editor%20for%20Org%20mode][org-table.el]] has proven difficult to work with.
2568 Should be a hook in [[file:~/src/org/lisp/org-table.el::defun%20org%20table%20eval%20formula%20optional%20arg%20equation][org-table-eval-formula]].
2570 Looks like I need to change this [[file:~/src/org/lisp/org-table.el::if%20lispp][if statement]] (line 2239) into a cond
2573 ** DONE source blocks as functions
2575 Allow source code blocks to be called like functions, with arguments
2576 specified. We are already able to call a source-code block and assign
2577 it's return result to a variable. This would just add the ability to
2578 specify the values of the arguments to the source code block assuming
2579 any exist. For an example see
2581 When a variable appears in a header argument, how do we differentiate
2582 between it's value being a reference or a literal value? I guess this
2583 could work just like a programming language. If it's escaped or in
2584 quotes, then we count it as a literal, otherwise we try to look it up
2587 ** DONE folding of code blocks? [2/2]
2588 [DED] In similar way to using outline-minor-mode for folding function
2589 bodies, can we fold code blocks? #+begin whatever statements are
2590 pretty ugly, and in any case when you're thinking about the overall
2591 game plan you don't necessarily want to see the code for each Step.
2593 *** DONE folding of source code block
2594 Sounds good, and wasn't too hard to implement. Code blocks should
2595 now be fold-able in the same manner as headlines (by pressing TAB
2598 *** REJECTED folding of results
2599 So, lets do a three-stage tab cycle... First fold the src block,
2600 then fold the results, then unfold.
2602 There's no way to tell if the results are a table or not w/o
2603 actually executing the block which would be too expensive of an
2606 ** DONE selective export of text, code, figures
2607 [DED] The org-babel buffer contains everything (code, headings and
2608 notes/prose describing what you're up to, textual/numeric/graphical
2609 code output, etc). However on export to html / LaTeX one might want
2610 to include only a subset of that content. For example you might
2611 want to create a presentation of what you've done which omits the
2614 [EMS] So I think this should be implemented as a property which can
2615 be set globally or on the outline header level (I need to review
2616 the mechanics of org-mode properties). And then as a source block
2617 header argument which will apply only to a specific source code
2618 block. A header argument of =:export= with values of
2620 - =code= :: just show the code in the source code block
2621 - =none= :: don't show the code or the results of the evaluation
2622 - =results= :: just show the results of the code evaluation (don't
2623 show the actual code)
2624 - =both= :: show both the source code, and the results
2626 this will be done in [[* (sandbox) selective export][(sandbox) selective export]].
2628 ** DONE a header argument specifying silent evaluation (no output)
2629 This would be useful across all types of source block. Currently
2630 there is a =:replace t= option to control output, this could be
2631 generalized to an =:output= option which could take the following
2632 options (maybe more)
2634 - =t= :: this would be the default, and would simply insert the
2635 results after the source block
2636 - =replace= :: to replace any results which may already be there
2637 - =silent= :: this would inhibit any insertion of the results
2639 This is now implemented see the example in the [[* silent evaluation][sandbox]]
2641 ** DONE assign variables from tables in R
2642 This is now working (see [[* (sandbox table) R][(sandbox-table)-R]]). Although it's not that
2643 impressive until we are able to print table results from R.
2645 ** DONE insert 2-D R results as tables
2646 everything is working but R and shell
2652 This has already been tackled by Dan in [[file:existing_tools/org-R.el::defconst%20org%20R%20write%20org%20table%20def][org-R:check-dimensions]]. The
2653 functions there should be useful in combination with [[http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html#Export-to-text-files][R-export-to-csv]]
2654 as a means of converting multidimensional R objects to emacs lisp.
2656 It may be as simple as first checking if the data is multidimensional,
2657 and then, if so using =write= to write the data out to a temporary
2658 file from which emacs can read the data in using =org-table-import=.
2660 Looking into this further, is seems that there is no such thing as a
2661 scalar in R [[http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/03a/3733.html][R-scalar-vs-vector]] In that light I am not sure how to
2662 deal with trivial vectors (scalars) in R. I'm tempted to just treat
2663 them as vectors, but then that would lead to a proliferation of
2664 trivial 1-cell tables...
2666 ** DONE allow variable initialization from source blocks
2667 Currently it is possible to initialize a variable from an org-mode
2668 table with a block argument like =table=sandbox= (note that the
2669 variable doesn't have to named =table=) as in the following example
2675 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table=sandbox :results replace
2676 (message (format "table = %S" table))
2679 : "table = ((1 2 3) (4 \"schulte\" 6))"
2681 It would be good to allow initialization of variables from the results
2682 of other source blocks in the same manner. This would probably
2683 require the addition of =#+SRCNAME: example= lines for the naming of
2684 source blocks, also the =table=sandbox= syntax may have to be expanded
2685 to specify whether the target is a source code block or a table
2686 (alternately we could just match the first one with the given name
2687 whether it's a table or a source code block).
2689 At least initially I'll try to implement this so that there is no need
2690 to specify whether the reference is to a table or a source-code block.
2691 That seems to be simpler both in terms of use and implementation.
2693 This is now working for emacs-lisp, ruby and python (and mixtures of
2694 the three) source blocks. See the examples in the [[* (sandbox) referencing other source blocks][sandbox]].
2696 This is currently working only with emacs lisp as in the following
2697 example in the [[* emacs lisp source reference][emacs lisp source reference]].
2700 ** TODO Add languages [11/16]
2701 I'm sure there are many more that aren't listed here. Please add
2702 them, and bubble any that you particularly care about up to the top.
2704 Any new language should be implemented in a org-babel-lang.el file.
2705 Follow the pattern set by [[file:lisp/org-babel-script.el][org-babel-script.el]], [[file:lisp/org-babel-shell.el][org-babel-shell.el]] and
2706 [[file:lisp/org-babel-R.el][org-babel-R.el]].
2717 let fac n = if n == 0 then 1 else n * fac (n - 1)
2729 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
2731 **** allow non-interactive evaluation
2733 *** STARTED ocaml [2/3]
2735 - [X] Working for the simple case (no arguments, simple output)
2736 - [X] correct handling of vector/list output
2737 - [ ] ability to import arguments
2744 | n -> fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) in
2766 [|"ocaml"; "array"|]
2770 | "ocaml" | "array" |
2773 This could probably be added to [[file:lisp/org-babel-script.el][org-babel-script.el]]
2777 - support for sessions
2778 - add more useful header arguments (user, passwd, database, etc...)
2779 - support for more engines (currently only supports mysql)
2780 - what's a reasonable way to drop table data into SQL?
2782 #+srcname: sql-example
2783 #+begin_src sql :engine mysql
2789 | "information_schema" |
2793 Sass is a very nice extension of CSS, which is much nicer to read and
2794 write (see [[http://sass-lang.com/][sass-lang]]).
2796 #+srcname: sass-example
2797 #+begin_src sass :file stylesheet.css :results file
2807 [[file:stylesheet.css][stylesheet.css]]
2810 trivial [[file:lisp/langs/org-babel-css.el][org-babel-css.el]]
2813 (see [[* file result types][file result types]])
2815 #+srcname: implementing-ditaa
2816 #+begin_src ditaa :results replace :file blue.png :cmdline -r
2826 #+resname: implementing-ditaa
2827 [[file:blue.png][blue.png]]
2829 *** DONE gnuplot [7/7]
2830 (see [[* file result types][file result types]])
2832 #+PLOT: title:"Citas" ind:1 deps:(3) type:2d with:histograms set:"yrange [0:]"
2833 #+TBLNAME: gnuplot-data
2834 | independent var | first dependent var | second dependent var |
2835 |-----------------+---------------------+----------------------|
2836 | 0.1 | 0.425 | 0.375 |
2837 | 0.2 | 0.3125 | 0.3375 |
2838 | 0.3 | 0.24999993 | 0.28333338 |
2839 | 0.4 | 0.275 | 0.28125 |
2840 | 0.5 | 0.26 | 0.27 |
2841 | 0.6 | 0.25833338 | 0.24999993 |
2842 | 0.7 | 0.24642845 | 0.23928553 |
2843 | 0.8 | 0.23125 | 0.2375 |
2844 | 0.9 | 0.23333323 | 0.2333332 |
2845 | 1 | 0.2225 | 0.22 |
2846 | 1.1 | 0.20909075 | 0.22272708 |
2847 | 1.2 | 0.19999998 | 0.21458333 |
2848 | 1.3 | 0.19615368 | 0.21730748 |
2850 #+srcname: implementing-gnuplot
2851 #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=gnuplot-data :results silent
2852 set title "Implementing Gnuplot"
2853 plot data using 1:2 with lines
2856 **** DONE add variables
2857 gnuplot 4.2 and up support user defined variables. This is how
2858 we will handle variables with org-babel (meaning we will need to
2859 require gnuplot 4.2 and up for variable support, which can be
2860 install using [[http://www.macports.org/install.php][macports]] on Mac OSX).
2862 - scalar variables should be replaced in the body of the gnuplot code
2863 - vector variables should be exported to tab-separated files, and
2864 the variable names should be replaced with the path to the files
2866 **** DONE direct plotting w/o session
2867 **** DEFERRED gnuplot support for column/row names
2868 This should be implemented along the lines of the [[* STARTED Column (and row) names of tables in R input/output][R-colname-support]].
2870 We can do something similar to the :labels param in org-plot, we just
2871 have to be careful to ensure that each label is aligned with the
2874 This may be walking too close to an entirely prebuilt plotting tool
2875 rather than straight gnuplot code evaluation. For now I think this
2878 **** DONE a =file= header argument
2879 to specify a file holding the results
2881 #+srcname: gnuplot-to-file-implementation
2882 #+begin_src gnuplot :file plot.png :var data=gnuplot-data
2883 plot data using 1:2, data using 1:3 with lines
2887 [[file:plot.png][plot.png]]
2889 **** DONE helpers from org-plot.el
2890 There are a variety of helpers in org-plot which can be fit nicely
2891 into custom gnuplot header arguments.
2893 These should all be in place by now.
2895 **** DEFERRED header argument specifying 3D data
2898 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2899 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2901 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
2902 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2903 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2904 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
2905 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2906 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2907 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2908 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2909 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
2910 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2911 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2913 #+srcname: implementing-gnuplot-grid-plots
2914 #+begin_src gnuplot :vars data=org-grid
2918 **** DONE gnuplot sessions
2919 Working on this, we won't support multiple sessions as `gnuplot-mode'
2920 isn't setup for such things.
2922 Also we can't display results with the default :none session, so for
2923 gnuplot we really want the default behavior to be :default, and to
2924 only run a :none session when explicitly specified.
2926 #+srcname: implementing-gnuplot-sessions
2927 #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=gnuplot-data :session none :file session.png
2928 set title "Implementing Gnuplot Sessions"
2929 plot data using 1:2 with lines
2933 [[file:session.png][session.png]]
2936 (see [[* file result types][file result types]])
2938 #+srcname: implementing-dot-support
2939 #+begin_src dot :file test-dot.png :cmdline -Tpng
2940 digraph data_relationships {
2941 "data_requirement" [shape=Mrecord, label="{DataRequirement|description\lformat\l}"]
2942 "data_product" [shape=Mrecord, label="{DataProduct|name\lversion\lpoc\lformat\l}"]
2943 "data_requirement" -> "data_product"
2948 [[file:test-dot.png][test-dot.png]]
2951 (see [[* file result types][file result types]])
2953 for information on asymptote see http://asymptote.sourceforge.net
2955 #+begin_src asymptote :file asymptote-test.png
2960 real f(real t) {return 1+cos(t);}
2962 path g=polargraph(f,0,2pi,operator ..)--cycle;
2965 xaxis("$x$",above=true);
2966 yaxis("$y$",above=true);
2968 dot("$(a,0)$",(1,0),N);
2969 dot("$(2a,0)$",(2,0),N+E);
2973 [[file:asymptote-test.png][asymptote-test.png]]
2983 ** DONE stripping indentation from source-code blocks
2984 This is a problem in [[file:lisp/org-babel-exp.el][org-babel-exp.el]].
2986 ** DONE failing to write srcname to resname when evaluating a named block
2988 #+srcname: please-name-my-result
2989 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
2993 #+resname: please-name-my-result
2997 ** DONE Python session evaluation bug
2998 The following block evaluates correctly with :session none
2999 (set :results to output), but fails with session-based evaluation
3000 (with :results value, as below, you see the error message)
3002 I edebug'ed it and it seems fine until [[file:lisp/langs/org-babel-python.el::comint%20session%20evaluation%20org%20babel%20comint%20in%20buffer%20buffer%20let%20full%20body][we go to comint]].
3004 #+begin_src python :session pysession :results value
3006 from subprocess import *
3011 cc = [('58C','NBS'),
3015 for outdir in ['none', 'noscots', 'lax', 'strict']:
3016 outdir = os.path.join('exclusion-study', outdir)
3017 for case, control in cc:
3018 outfile = os.path.join(outdir, '%s-vs-%s-direct' % (case, control))
3019 cmd = 'snptest %s -frequentist 1 -hwe ' % ('-gen_gz' if format == '.gen.gz' else '')
3020 cmd += '-cases %s %s ' % (case + format, case + '.sample')
3022 cmd += '-controls %s %s ' % (control + format, control + '.sample')
3023 cmd += '-exclude_samples %s ' % os.path.join(outdir, 'exclusions')
3024 cmd += '-o %s ' % outfile
3025 cmd += '-chunk %d ' % chunk
3026 cmd += '> %s' % outfile + '.log'
3033 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/none/exclusions -o exclusion-study/none/58C-vs-NBS-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/none/58C-vs-NBS-direct.log
3034 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/none/exclusions -o exclusion-study/none/58C-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/none/58C-vs-POBI-direct.log
3035 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/none/exclusions -o exclusion-study/none/NBS-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/none/NBS-vs-POBI-direct.log
3036 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/noscots/exclusions -o exclusion-study/noscots/58C-vs-NBS-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/noscots/58C-vs-NBS-direct.log
3037 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/noscots/exclusions -o exclusion-study/noscots/58C-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/noscots/58C-vs-POBI-direct.log
3038 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/noscots/exclusions -o exclusion-study/noscots/NBS-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/noscots/NBS-vs-POBI-direct.log
3039 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/lax/exclusions -o exclusion-study/lax/58C-vs-NBS-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/lax/58C-vs-NBS-direct.log
3040 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/lax/exclusions -o exclusion-study/lax/58C-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/lax/58C-vs-POBI-direct.log
3041 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/lax/exclusions -o exclusion-study/lax/NBS-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/lax/NBS-vs-POBI-direct.log
3042 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/strict/exclusions -o exclusion-study/strict/58C-vs-NBS-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/strict/58C-vs-NBS-direct.log
3043 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases 58C.gen.gz 58C.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/strict/exclusions -o exclusion-study/strict/58C-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/strict/58C-vs-POBI-direct.log
3044 snptest -gen_gz -frequentist 1 -hwe -cases NBS.gen.gz NBS.sample -controls POBI.gen.gz POBI.sample -exclude_samples exclusion-study/strict/exclusions -o exclusion-study/strict/NBS-vs-POBI-direct -chunk 10000 > exclusion-study/strict/NBS-vs-POBI-direct.log
3047 ** DONE require users to explicitly turn on each language
3048 As we continue to add more languages to org-babel, many of which will
3049 require new major-modes we need to re-think how languages are added to
3052 Currently we are requiring all available languages in the
3053 [[file:lisp/org-babel-init.el][org-babel-init.el]] file. I think we need to change this to a user
3054 setting so that only the language which have their requirements met
3055 (in terms of system executables and emacs major modes) are loaded. It
3056 is one more step for install, but it seems to me to be the only
3061 we add something like the following to the instillation instructions
3063 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
3064 ;; Uncomment each of the following require lines if you want org-babel
3065 ;; to support that language. Each language has a comment explaining
3066 ;; it's dependencies. See the related files in lisp/langs for more
3067 ;; detailed explanations of requirements.
3069 ;; (require 'org-babel-R) ;; ess-mode
3070 ;; (require 'org-babel-asymptote) ;; asymptote be installed on your system
3071 ;; (require 'org-babel-css) ;; none
3072 ;; (require 'org-babel-ditaa) ;; ditaa be installed on your system
3073 ;; (require 'org-babel-dot) ;; dot be installed on your system
3074 ;; (require 'org-babel-gnuplot) ;; gnuplot-mode
3075 ;; (require 'org-babel-python) ;; python-mode
3076 ;; (require 'org-babel-ruby) ;; inf-ruby mode, ruby and irb must be installed on your system
3077 ;; (require 'org-babel-sql) ;; none
3080 note that =org-babel-sh=, =org-babel-emacs-lisp= are not included in
3081 the list as they can safely be assumed to work on any system.
3084 we should come up with a way to gracefully degrade when support for a
3085 specific language is missing
3087 > To demonstrate creation of documents, open the "test-export.org" file in
3088 > the base of the org-babel directory, and export it as you would any
3089 > other org-mode file. The "exports" header argument controls how
3090 > source-code blocks are exported, with the following options
3092 > - none :: no part of the source-code block is exported in the document
3093 > - results :: only the output of the evaluated block is exported
3094 > - code :: the code itself is exported
3095 > - both :: both the code and results are exported
3097 I have this error showing up:
3099 executing Ruby source code block
3100 apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, irb
3102 ** DONE problem with newlines in output when :results value
3104 #+begin_src python :results value
3105 '\n'.join(map(str, range(4)))
3114 Whereas I was hoping for
3121 *Note*: to generate the above you can try using the new =raw= results
3124 #+begin_src python :results value raw
3125 '|'+'|\n|'.join(map(str, range(4)))+'|'
3134 This is now working, it doesn't return as a table because the value
3135 returned is technically a string. To return the table mentioned above
3136 try something like the following.
3139 [[0], [1], [2], [3]]
3148 This is some sort of non-printing char / quoting issue I think. Note
3151 #+begin_src python :results value
3152 '\\n'.join(map(str, range(4)))
3159 #+begin_src python :results output
3160 print('\n'.join(map(str, range(4))))
3169 *** collapsing consecutive newlines in string output
3171 This is an example of the same bug
3173 #+srcname: multi-line-string-output
3174 #+begin_src ruby :results output
3175 "the first line ends here
3178 and this is the second one
3183 This doesn't produce anything at all now. I believe that's because
3184 I've changed things so that :results output really does *not* get the
3185 value of the block, only the STDOUT. So if we add a print statement
3188 #+srcname: multi-line-string-output
3189 #+begin_src ruby :results output
3190 print "the first line ends here
3193 and this is the second one
3199 : the first line ends here
3202 : and this is the second one
3206 However, the behaviour with :results value is wrong
3208 #+srcname: multi-line-string-value
3210 "the first line ends here
3213 and this is the second one
3221 ** TODO prompt characters appearing in output with R
3222 #+begin_src R :session *R* :results output
3231 ** TODO o-b-execute-subtree overwrites heading when subtree is folded
3233 Try M-x org-babel-execute-subtree with the subtree folded and
3234 point at the beginning of the heading line.
3238 ** DONE non-orgtbl formatted lists
3241 #+srcname: this-doesn't-match-orgtbl
3242 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results replace
3243 '((:results . "replace"))
3247 | (:results . "replace") |
3249 #+srcname: this-probably-also-wont-work
3250 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results replace
3257 ** PROPOSED allow un-named arguments
3266 ## produces no output
3268 It's not essential but would be nice for this to work. To do it
3269 properly, would mean that we'd have to specify rules for how a string
3270 of supplied arguments (some possibly named) interact with the
3271 arguments in the definition (some possibly with defaults) to give
3272 values to the variables in the funbction body.
3273 ** PROPOSED external shell execution can't isolate return values
3274 I have no idea how to do this as of yet. The result is that when
3275 shell functions are run w/o a session there is no difference between
3276 the =output= and =value= result arguments.
3278 Yea, I don't know how to do this either. I searched extensively on
3279 how to isolate the *last* output of a series of shell commands (see
3280 [[* last command for
3281 shells][last command for shells]]). The results of the search were basically
3282 that it was not possible (or at least not accomplish-able with a
3283 reasonable amount of effort).
3285 That fact combined with the tenancy to all ways use standard out in
3286 shell scripts led me to treat these two options (=output= and =value=)
3287 as identical in shell evaluation. Not ideal but maybe good enough for
3290 In the `results' branch I've changed this so that they're not quite
3291 identical: output results in raw stdout contents, whereas value
3292 converts it to elisp, perhaps to a table if it looks tabular. This is
3293 the same for the other languages. [Dan]
3295 ** DONE adding blank line when source-block produces no output
3297 #+srcname: show-org-babel-trim
3299 find . \( -path \*/SCCS -o -path \*/RCS -o -path \*/CVS -o -path \*/MCVS -o -path \*/.svn -o -path \*/.git -o -path \*/.hg -o -path \*/.bzr -o -path \*/_MTN -o -path \*/_darcs -o -path \*/\{arch\} \) -prune -o -type f \( -iname \*.el \) -exec grep -i -nH -e org-babel-trim {} \;
3302 ** DONE Allow source blocks to be recognised when #+ are not first characters on the line
3303 I think Carsten has recently altered the core so that #+ can have
3304 preceding whitespace, at least for literal/code examples. org-babel
3305 should support this.
3307 #+srcname: testing-indentation
3308 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
3309 (message "i'm indented")
3312 #+srcname: testing-non-indentation
3313 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
3314 (message "I'm not indented")
3317 #+srcname: i-resolve-references-to-the-indented
3318 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var speech=testing-indentation :results silent
3319 (message "I said %s" speech)
3322 ** DONE are the org-babel-trim s necessary?
3323 at the end of e.g. org-babel-R-evaluate, org-babel-python-evaluate, but
3324 not org-babel-ruby-evaluate
3326 I think it depends on the language, if we find that extra blank
3327 lines are being inserted in a particular language that is a good
3328 indication that the trim or chomp functions may be appropriate.
3330 org-babel-trim and the related org-babel-chomp are use throughout
3333 #+srcname: show-org-babel-trim-usage
3334 #+begin_src sh :results output
3335 find lisp/ \( -path \*/SCCS -o -path \*/RCS -o -path \*/CVS -o -path \*/MCVS -o -path \*/.svn -o -path \*/.git -o -path \*/.hg -o -path \*/.bzr -o -path \*/_MTN -o -path \*/_darcs -o -path \*/\{arch\} \) -prune -o -type f \( -iname \*.el \) -exec grep -i -nH org-babel-trim {} \;
3340 lisp//langs/org-babel-python.el:49: vars "\n") "\n" (org-babel-trim body) "\n")) ;; then the source block body
3341 lisp//langs/org-babel-python.el:143: (org-remove-indentation (org-babel-trim body)) "[\r\n]")))
3342 lisp//langs/org-babel-python.el:158: #'org-babel-trim
3343 lisp//langs/org-babel-python.el:166: (reverse (mapcar #'org-babel-trim raw)))))))
3344 lisp//langs/org-babel-python.el:169: (output (org-babel-trim (mapconcat #'identity (reverse (cdr results)) "\n")))
3345 lisp//langs/org-babel-python.el:170: (value (org-babel-python-table-or-string (org-babel-trim (car results)))))))))
3346 lisp//langs/org-babel-ruby.el:149: (mapcar #'org-babel-trim raw)))))))
3347 lisp//langs/org-babel-sh.el:148: (mapcar #'org-babel-trim raw)))))))
3348 lisp//langs/org-babel-sh.el:151: (output (org-babel-trim (mapconcat #'org-babel-trim (reverse results) "\n")))
3349 lisp//org-babel-ref.el:161: (mapcar #'org-babel-trim (reverse (cons buffer return)))))
3350 lisp//org-babel.el:198: (with-temp-buffer (insert (org-babel-trim body)) (copy-region-as-kill (point-min) (point-max)))
3351 lisp//org-babel.el:465: (org-babel-trim
3352 lisp//org-babel.el:706:(defun org-babel-trim (string &optional regexp)
3355 #+srcname: show-org-babel-chomp-usage
3356 #+begin_src sh :results output
3357 find lisp/ \( -path \*/SCCS -o -path \*/RCS -o -path \*/CVS -o -path \*/MCVS -o -path \*/.svn -o -path \*/.git -o -path \*/.hg -o -path \*/.bzr -o -path \*/_MTN -o -path \*/_darcs -o -path \*/\{arch\} \) -prune -o -type f \( -iname \*.el \) -exec grep -i -nH org-babel-chomp {} \;
3362 lisp//langs/org-babel-R.el:122: (full-body (mapconcat #'org-babel-chomp
3363 lisp//langs/org-babel-R.el:143: (delete nil (mapcar #'extractor (mapcar #'org-babel-chomp raw))) "\n"))))))))
3364 lisp//langs/org-babel-ruby.el:143: #'org-babel-chomp
3365 lisp//langs/org-babel-sh.el:142: (full-body (mapconcat #'org-babel-chomp
3366 lisp//org-babel-tangle.el:163: (insert (format "\n%s\n" (org-babel-chomp body)))
3367 lisp//org-babel.el:362: (org-babel-chomp (match-string 2 arg)))
3368 lisp//org-babel.el:698:(defun org-babel-chomp (string &optional regexp)
3369 lisp//org-babel.el:707: "Like `org-babel-chomp' only it runs on both the front and back of the string"
3370 lisp//org-babel.el:708: (org-babel-chomp (org-babel-reverse-string
3371 lisp//org-babel.el:709: (org-babel-chomp (org-babel-reverse-string string) regexp)) regexp))
3374 ** DONE LoB is not populated on startup
3375 org-babel-library-of-babel is nil for me on startup. I have to
3376 evaluate the [[file:lisp/org-babel-lob.el::][org-babel-lob-ingest]] line manually.
3378 #+tblname: R-plot-example-data
3385 #+lob: R-plot(data=R-plot-example-data)
3389 I've added a section to [[file:lisp/org-babel-init.el][org-babel-init.el]] which will load the
3390 library of babel on startup.
3392 Note that this needs to be done in [[file:lisp/org-babel-init.el][org-babel-init.el]] rather than in
3393 [[file:lisp/org-babel-lob.el][org-babel-lob.el]], not entirely sure why, something about it being
3396 Also, I'm now having the file closed if it wasn't being visited by
3397 a buffer before being loaded.
3399 ** DONE use new merge function [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el::t%20nil%20org%20combine%20plists%20args%20nil][here]]?
3400 And at other occurrences of org-combine-plists?
3401 ** DONE creeping blank lines
3402 There's still inappropriate addition of blank lines in some circumstances.
3404 Hmm, it's a bit confusing. It's to do with o-b-remove-result. LoB
3405 removes the entire (#+resname and result) and starts from scratch,
3406 whereas #+begin_src only removes the result. I haven't worked out
3407 what the correct fix is yet. Maybe the right thing to do is to make
3408 sure that those functions (o-b-remove-result et al.) are neutral
3409 with respect to newlines. Sounds easy, but...
3419 Compare the results of
3420 #+lob: adder(a=5, b=17)
3422 #+resname: python-add(a=5, b=17)
3424 --------------------------------
3432 ---------------------
3433 ** DONE #+srcname arg parsing bug
3434 #+srcname: test-zz(arg=adder(a=1, b=1))
3443 #+srcname: test-zz-nasty(arg=adder(a=adder(a=19,b=adder(a=5,b=2)),b=adder(a=adder(a=1,b=9),b=adder(a=1,b=3))))
3448 #+resname: test-zz-nasty
3453 #+srcname: test-zz-hdr-arg
3454 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=19,b=adder(a=5,b=2)),b=adder(a=adder(a=1,b=9),b=adder(a=1,b=3)))
3461 ** DONE Fix nested evaluation and default args
3462 The current parser / evaluator fails with greater levels of nested
3463 function block calls (example below).
3465 *** Initial statement [ded]
3466 If we want to overcome this I think we'd have to redesign some of
3467 the evaluation mechanism. Seeing as we are also facing issues like
3468 dealing with default argument values, and seeing as we now know
3469 how we want the library of babel to behave in addition to the
3470 source blocks, now might be a good time to think about this. It
3471 would be nice to do the full thing at some point, but otoh we may
3472 not consider it a massive priority.
3474 AIui, there are two stages: (i) construct a parse tree, and (ii)
3475 evaluate it and return the value at the root. In the parse tree
3476 each node represents an unevaluated value (either a literal value
3477 or a reference). Node v may have descendent nodes, which represent
3478 values upon which node v's evaluation depends. Once that tree is
3479 constructed, then we evaluate the nodes from the tips towards the
3480 root (a post-order traversal).
3482 [This would also provide a solution for concatenating the STDOUTs
3483 of called blocks, which is a [[*allow%20output%20mode%20to%20return%20stdout%20as%20value][task below]]; we concatenate them in
3484 whatever order the traversal is done in.]
3486 In addition to the variable references (i.e. daughter nodes), each
3487 node would contain the information needed to evaluate that node
3488 (e.g. lang body). Then we would pass a function postorder over the
3489 tree which would call o-b-execute-src-block at each node, finally
3490 returning the value at the root.
3492 Fwiw I made a very tentative small start at stubbing this out in
3493 org-babel-call.el in the 'evaluation' branch. And I've made a start
3494 at sketching a parsing algorithm below.
3495 **** Parse tree algorithm
3496 Seeing as we're just trying to parse a string like
3497 f(a=1,b=g(c=2,d=3)) it shouldn't be too hard. But of course there
3498 are 'proper' parsers written in elisp out there,
3499 e.g. [[http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml][Semantic]]. Perhaps we can find what we need -- our syntax is
3500 pretty much the same as python and R isn't it?
3502 Or, a complete hack, but maybe it would be we easy to transform it
3503 to XML and then parse that with some existing tool?
3505 But if we're doing it ourselves, something very vaguely like this?
3506 (I'm sure there're lots of problems with this)
3508 #+srcname: org-babel-call-parse(call)
3510 ## we are currently reading a reference name: the name of the root function
3511 whereami = "refname"
3512 node = root = Node()
3513 for c in call_string:
3516 whereami = "varname" # now we're reading a variable name
3519 node.daughters = [node.daughters, new]
3522 whereami = "refname"
3524 whereami = "varname"
3531 if whereami = "varname":
3532 node.varnames[varnum] += c
3533 elif whereami = "refname":
3537 *** discussion / investigation
3538 I believe that this issue should be addressed as a bug rather than as
3539 a point for new development. The code in [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el][org-babel-ref.el]] already
3540 resolves variable references in a recursive manner which *should* work
3541 in the same manner regardless of the depth of the number of nested
3542 function calls. This recursive evaluation has the effect of
3543 implicitly constructing the parse tree that your are thinking of
3544 constructing explicitly.
3546 Through using some of the commented out debugging statements in
3547 [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el][org-babel-ref.el]] I have looked at what may be going wrong in the
3548 current evaluation setup, and it seems that nested variables are being
3549 set using the =:var= header argument, and these variables are being
3550 overridden by the *default* variables which are being entered through
3551 the new functional syntax (see the demonstration header below).
3553 I believe that once this bug is fixed we should be back to fully
3554 resolution of nested arguments. We should capture this functionality
3555 in a test to ensure that we continue to test it as we move forward. I
3556 can take a look at implementing this once I get a chance.
3558 Looks like the problem may be in [[file:lisp/org-babel.el::defun%20org%20babel%20merge%20params%20rest%20plists][org-babel-merge-params]], which seems
3559 to be trampling the provided :vars values.
3561 Nope, now it seems that we are actually looking up the results line,
3562 rather than the actual source-code block, which would make sense given
3563 that the results-line will return the same value regardless of the
3564 arguments supplied. See the output of this [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el::message%20type%20S%20type%20debugging][debug-statement]].
3566 We need to be sure that we don't read from a =#+resname:= line when we
3567 have a non-nil set of arguments.
3570 After uncommenting the debugging statements located [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el::message%20format%20first%20second%20S%20S%20new%20refere%20new%20referent%20debugging][here]] and more
3571 importantly [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el::message%20nested%20args%20S%20args%20debugging][here]], we can see that the current reference code does
3572 evaluate the references correctly, and it uses the =:var= header
3573 argument to set =a=8=, however the default variables specified using
3574 the functional syntax in =adder(a=3, b=2)= is overriding this
3577 ***** doesn't work with functional syntax
3579 #+srcname: adder-func(a=3, b=2)
3584 #+resname: adder-func
3587 #+srcname: after-adder-func(arg=adder-func(a=8))
3592 #+resname: after-adder-func
3595 ***** still does work with =:var= syntax
3597 so it looks like regardless of the syntax used we're not overriding
3598 the default argument values.
3600 #+srcname: adder-header
3601 #+begin_src python :var a=3 :var b=2
3605 #+resname: adder-header
3608 #+srcname: after-adder-header
3609 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder-header(a=8, b=0)
3613 #+resname: after-adder-header
3616 *** Set of test cases
3617 **** Both defaults provided in definition
3618 #+srcname: adder1(a=10,b=20)
3625 ****** DONE Rely on defaults
3633 ******* DONE empty parens () not recognised as lob call
3634 E.g. remove spaces between parens above
3636 updated [[file:lisp/org-babel-lob.el::defvar%20org%20babel%20lob%20one%20liner%20regexp%20lob%20t%20n%20n%20t%20n][org-babel-lob-one-liner-regexp]]
3638 ****** DONE One supplied, one default
3641 #+resname: adder1(a=0)
3648 #+resname: adder1(b=0)
3652 ****** DONE Both supplied
3653 #+lob: adder1(a=1,b=2)
3655 #+resname: adder1(a=1,b=2)
3658 **** One arg lacks default in definition
3659 #+srcname: adder2(a=10,b)
3663 ****** DEFERRED Rely on defaults (one of which is missing)
3668 ## should be error: b has no default
3670 Maybe we should let the programming language handle this case. For
3671 example python spits out an error in the =#+lob= line above. Maybe
3672 rather than catching these errors our-selves we should raise an error
3673 when the source-block returns an error. I'll propose a [[* PROPOSED raise elisp error when source-blocks return errors][task]] for this
3674 idea, I'm not sure how/if it would work...
3676 ****** DEFERRED Default over-ridden
3679 See the above [[* DEFERRED Rely on defaults (one of which is missing)][deferred]] and the new proposed [[* PROPOSED raise elisp error when source-blocks return errors][task]], I think it may be
3680 more flexible to allow the source block language to handle the error.
3683 ## should be error: b has no default
3685 ****** DONE Missing default supplied
3688 #+resname: adder2(b=1)
3695 ****** DONE One over-ridden, one supplied
3696 #+lob: adder2(a=1,b=2)
3698 #+resname: adder2(a=1,b=2)
3703 *** Example that fails
3705 #+srcname: adder(a=0, b=99)
3718 #+srcname: level-one-nesting()
3719 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=one(),b=one())
3723 #+resname: level-one-nesting
3727 #+srcname: level-one-nesting()
3728 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()),b=adder(a=one(),b=one()))
3735 *** DONE deeply nested arguments still fails
3737 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug
3738 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()),b=adder(a=one(),b=one()))
3745 **** Used to result in this error
3746 : supplied params=nil
3747 : new-refere="adder", new-referent="a=adder(a=one(),b=one()),b=adder(a=one(),b=one())"
3748 : args=((:var . "a=adder(a=one()") (:var . "b=one())") (:var . "b=adder(a=one()") (:var . "b=one())"))
3750 : supplied params=((:var . "a=adder(a=one()") (:var . "b=one())") (:var . "b=adder(a=one()") (:var . "b=one())"))
3751 : new-refere="adder", new-referent="a=one("
3752 : args=((:var . "a=one("))
3754 : supplied params=((:var . "a=one("))
3755 : reference 'one(' not found in this buffer
3757 Need to change the regexp in [[file:lisp/org-babel-ref.el::assign%20any%20arguments%20to%20pass%20to%20source%20block][org-babel-ref-resolve-reference]] so that
3758 it only matches when the parenthesis are balanced. Maybe look at
3759 [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/List-Motion.html][this]].
3761 *** DONE Still some problems with deeply nested arguments and defaults
3763 **** DONE Parsing / defaults bug
3764 Try inserting a space between 'a=0,' and 'b=0' and comparing results
3765 #+srcname: parsing-defaults-bug()
3766 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=0,b=0))
3770 #+resname: parsing-defaults-bug
3774 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-orig()
3775 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()),b=adder(a=adder(a=3, b=4),b=one()))
3779 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-orig
3784 **** DONE Nesting problem II
3785 This generates parsing errors
3787 Fixed: c2bef96b7f644c05be5a38cad6ad1d28723533aa
3789 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-1()
3790 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=adder(a=2,b=4)))
3794 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-1
3798 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-original()
3799 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()),b=adder(a=one(),b=adder(a=1,b=4)))
3803 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-original
3808 **** DONE Why does this give 8?
3809 It was picking up the wrong definition of adder
3810 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-2()
3811 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()))
3815 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-2
3819 **** DONE Problem with empty argument list
3820 This gives empty list with () and 'no output' with ( )
3822 I think this is OK now.
3825 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder( )
3832 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-orig()
3833 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()),b=adder(a=adder(a=3, b=4),b=one()))
3837 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-orig
3842 **** DONE Nesting problem II
3843 This generates parsing errors
3845 Fixed: c2bef96b7f644c05be5a38cad6ad1d28723533aa
3847 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-1()
3848 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=adder(a=2,b=4)))
3852 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-1
3856 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-original()
3857 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()),b=adder(a=one(),b=adder(a=1,b=4)))
3861 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-II-original
3866 **** DONE Why does this give 8?
3867 It was picking up the wrong definition of adder
3868 #+srcname: deeply-nested-args-bug-2()
3869 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder(a=adder(a=one(),b=one()))
3873 #+resname: deeply-nested-args-bug-2
3877 **** DONE Problem with empty argument list
3878 This gives empty list with () and 'no output' with ( )
3880 I think this is OK now.
3883 #+begin_src python :var arg=adder( )
3916 #+srcname: test-zz(arg=adder(a=adder(a=19,b=adder(a=5,b=2)),b=adder(a=adder(a=1,b=9),b=adder(a=1,b=3))))
3922 *** DONE Arg lacking default
3923 This would be good thing to address soon. I'm imagining that
3924 e.g. here, the 'caller' block would return the answer 30. I believe
3925 there's a few issues here: i.e. the naked 'a' without a reference
3926 is not understood; the default arg b=6 is not understood.
3928 #+srcname: adder-with-arg-lacking-default(a, b=6)
3935 #+srcname: caller(var=adder-with-arg-lacking-default(a=24))
3936 #+begin_src python :results silent
3940 ** DONE allow srcname to omit function call parentheses
3941 Someone needs to revisit those regexps. Is there an argument for
3942 moving some of the regexps used to match function calls into
3943 defvars? (i.e. in o-b.el and o-b-ref.el)
3945 This seems to work now. It still might be a good idea to separate
3946 out some of the key regexps into defvars at some point.
3948 #+srcname: omit-parens-test
3949 #+begin_src ruby :results output
3958 ** DONE avoid stripping whitespace from output when :results output
3959 This may be partly solved by using o-b-chomp rather than o-b-trim
3960 in the o-b-LANG-evaluate functions.
3961 ** DEFERRED weird escaped characters in shell prompt break shell evaluation
3962 E.g. this doesn't work. Should the shell sessions set a sane prompt
3963 when they start up? Or is it a question of altering
3964 comint-prompt-regexp? Or altering org-babel regexps?
3967 black=30 ; red=31 ; green=32 ; yellow=33 ; blue=34 ; magenta=35 ; cyan=36 ; white=37
3970 export PS1="\[\033[${prompt_col}m\]\w${prompt_char} \[\033[0m\]"
3973 I just pushed a good amount of changes, could you see if your shell
3974 problems still exist?
3976 The problem's still there. Specifically, aIui, at [[file:lisp/langs/org-babel-sh.el::raw%20org%20babel%20comint%20with%20output%20buffer%20org%20babel%20sh%20eoe%20output%20nil%20insert%20full%20body%20comint%20send%20input%20nil%20t][this line]] of
3977 org-babel-sh.el, raw gets the value
3979 ("" "
\e[0m Sun Jun 14 19:26:24 EDT 2009\n" "
\e[0m org_babel_sh_eoe\n" "
\e[0m ")
3981 and therefore (member org-babel-sh-eoe-output ...) fails
3983 I think that `comint-prompt-regexp' needs to be altered to match
3984 the shell prompt. This shouldn't be too difficult to do by hand,
3985 using the `regexp-builder' command and should probably be part of
3986 the user's regular emacs init. I can't think of a way for us to
3987 set this automatically, and we are SOL without a regexp to match
3989 ** DONE function calls in #+srcname: refs
3991 My srcname references don't seem to be working for function
3992 calls. This needs fixing.
3999 srcname function call doesn't work for calling a source block
4000 #+srcname: caller(var1=called())
4013 They do work for a simple reference
4014 #+srcname: caller2(var1=56)
4023 and they do work for :var header arg
4025 #+begin_src python :var var1=called()
4031 ** DONE LoB: with output to buffer, not working in buffers other than library-of-babel.org
4033 I haven't fixed this yet. org-babel-ref-resolve-reference moves
4034 point around, inside a save-excursion. Somehow when it comes to
4035 inserting the results (after possible further recursive calls to
4036 org-babel-ref-resolve-reference), point hasn't gone back to the
4039 #+tblname: test-data
4044 #+lob: R-plot(data=test-data)
4046 #+lob: python-add(a=2, b=9)
4048 #+resname: python-add(a=2, b=9)
4052 I think this got fixed in the bugfixes before merging results into master.
4054 ** DONE cursor movement when evaluating source blocks
4055 E.g. the pie chart example. Despite the save-window-excursion in
4056 org-babel-execute:R. (I never learned how to do this properly: org-R
4057 jumps all over the place...)
4059 I don't see this now [ded]
4061 ** DONE LoB: calls fail if reference has single character name
4062 commit 21d058869df1ff23f4f8cc26f63045ac9c0190e2
4063 **** This doesn't work
4064 #+lob: R-plot(data=X)
4083 #+lob: R-plot(data=XX)
4085 ** DONE make :results replace the default?
4086 I'm tending to think that appending results to pre-existing results
4087 creates mess, and that the cleaner `replace' option should be the
4088 default. E.g. when a source block creates an image, we would want
4089 that to be updated, rather than have a new one be added.
4093 ** DONE ruby evaluation not working under ubuntu emacs 23
4094 With emacs 23.0.91.1 on ubuntu, for C-h f run-ruby I have the
4095 following, which seems to conflict with [[file:lisp/langs/org-babel-ruby.el::let%20session%20buffer%20save%20window%20excursion%20run%20ruby%20nil%20session%20current%20buffer][this line]] in org-babel-ruby.el.
4098 run-ruby is an interactive compiled Lisp function.
4102 Run an inferior Ruby process, input and output via buffer *ruby*.
4103 If there is a process already running in `*ruby*', switch to that buffer.
4104 With argument, allows you to edit the command line (default is value
4105 of `ruby-program-name'). Runs the hooks `inferior-ruby-mode-hook'
4106 (after the `comint-mode-hook' is run).
4107 (Type C-h m in the process buffer for a list of commands.)
4110 So, I may have a non-standard inf-ruby.el. Here's my version of
4114 run-ruby is an interactive Lisp function in `inf-ruby.el'.
4116 (run-ruby &optional COMMAND NAME)
4118 Run an inferior Ruby process, input and output via buffer *ruby*.
4119 If there is a process already running in `*ruby*', switch to that buffer.
4120 With argument, allows you to edit the command line (default is value
4121 of `ruby-program-name'). Runs the hooks `inferior-ruby-mode-hook'
4122 (after the `comint-mode-hook' is run).
4123 (Type C-h m in the process buffer for a list of commands.)
4126 It seems we could either bundle my version of inf-ruby.el (as it's
4127 the newest). Or we could change the use of `run-ruby' so that it
4128 is robust across multiple distributions. I think I'd prefer the
4129 former, unless the older version of inf-ruby is actually bundled
4130 with emacs, in which case maybe we should go out of our way to
4131 support it. Thoughts?
4133 I think for now I'll just include the latest [[file:util/inf-ruby.el][inf-ruby.el]] in the
4134 newly created utility directory. I doubt anyone would have a
4135 problem using the latest version of this file.
4136 ** DONE test failing forcing vector results with =test-forced-vector-results= ruby code block
4137 Note that this only seems to happen the *second* time the test table
4140 #+srcname: bug-trivial-vector
4141 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results vector silent
4145 #+srcname: bug-forced-vector-results
4146 #+begin_src ruby :var triv=test-trivial-vector :results silent
4150 mysteriously this seems to be fixed...
4151 ** DONE defunct R sessions
4152 Sometimes an old R session will turn defunct, and newly inserted code
4153 will not be evaluated (leading to a hang).
4155 This seems to be fixed by using `inferior-ess-send-input' rather than `comint-send-input'.
4156 ** DONE ruby fails on first call to non-default session
4158 #+srcname: bug-new-session
4159 #+begin_src ruby :session is-new
4163 ** DONE when reading results from =#+resname= line
4165 Errors when trying to read from resname lines.
4167 #+resname: bug-in-resname
4170 #+srcname: bug-in-resname-reader
4171 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var buggy=bug-in-resname() :results silent
4175 ** DONE R-code broke on "org-babel" rename
4177 #+srcname: bug-R-babels
4182 ** DONE error on trivial R results
4184 So I know it's generally not a good idea to squash error without
4185 handling them, but in this case the error almost always means that
4186 there was no file contents to be read by =org-table-import=, so I
4189 #+srcname: bug-trivial-r1
4190 #+begin_src R :results replace
4191 pie(c(1, 2, 3), labels = c(1, 2, 3))
4194 #+srcname: bug-trivial-r2
4195 #+begin_src R :results replace
4199 #+resname: bug-trivial-r2
4202 #+srcname: bug-trivial-r3
4203 #+begin_src R :results replace
4207 #+resname: bug-trivial-r3
4212 ** DONE ruby new variable creation (multi-line ruby blocks)
4213 Actually it looks like we were dropping all but the last line.
4215 #+srcname: multi-line-ruby-test
4216 #+begin_src ruby :var table=bug-numerical-table :results replace
4218 table.each{|n| total += n}
4225 ** DONE R code execution seems to choke on certain inputs
4226 Currently the R code seems to work on vertical (but not landscape)
4229 #+srcname: little-fake
4230 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
4235 #+begin_src R :var num=little-fake
4242 #+srcname: set-debug-on-error
4243 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
4244 (setq debug-on-error t)
4247 #+srcname: bug-numerical-table
4248 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
4255 #+srcname: bug-R-number-evaluation
4256 #+begin_src R :var table=bug-numerical-table
4265 #+tblname: bug-vert-table
4270 #+srcname: bug-R-vertical-table
4271 #+begin_src R :var table=bug-vert-table :results silent
4275 ** DONE org bug/request: prevent certain org behaviour within code blocks
4276 E.g. [[]] gets recognised as a link (when there's text inside the
4277 brackets). This is bad for R code at least, and more generally
4278 could be argued to be inappropriate. Is it difficult to get org to
4279 ignore text in code blocks? [DED]
4281 I believe Carsten addressed this recently on the mailing list with
4282 the comment that it was indeed a difficult issue. I believe this
4283 may be one area where we could wait for an upstream (org-mode) fix.
4285 [Dan] Carsten has fixed this now in the core.
4287 ** DONE with :results replace, non-table output doesn't replace table output
4288 And vice versa. E.g. Try this first with table and then with len(table) [DED]
4289 #+begin_src python :var table=sandbox :results replace
4294 | 4 | "schulte" | 6 |
4297 Yes, this is certainly a problem. I fear that if we begin replacing
4298 anything immediately following a source block (regardless of whether
4299 it matches the type of our current results) we may accidentally delete
4300 hand written portions of the user's org-mode buffer.
4302 I think that the best solution here would be to actually start
4303 labeling results with a line that looks something like...
4307 This would have a couple of benefits...
4308 1) we wouldn't have to worry about possibly deleting non-results
4309 (which is currently an issue)
4310 2) we could reliably replace results even if there are different types
4311 3) we could reference the results of a source-code block in variable
4312 definitions, which would be useful if for example we don't wish to
4313 re-run a source-block every time because it is long-running.
4315 Thoughts? If no-one objects, I believe I will implement the labeling
4318 ** DONE extra quotes for nested string
4319 Well R appears to be reading the tables without issue...
4321 these *should* be quoted
4323 #+begin_src sh :results replace
4328 | "README.markdown" |
4331 | "existing_tools" |
4335 | "test-export.html" |
4336 | "test-export.org" |
4338 #+srcname: test-quotes
4339 #+begin_src ruby :var tab=ls
4345 #+srcname: test-quotes
4346 #+begin_src R :var tab=ls
4352 ** DONE simple ruby arrays not working
4354 As an example eval the following. Adding a line to test
4356 #+tblname: simple-ruby-array
4359 #+srcname: ruby-array-test
4360 #+begin_src ruby :var ar = simple-ruby-array :results silent
4364 ** DONE space trailing language name
4365 fix regexp so it works when there's a space trailing the language name
4367 #+srcname: test-trailing-space
4372 ** DONE Args out of range error
4374 The following block resulted in the error below [DED]. It ran without
4375 error directly in the shell.
4378 for platf in ill aff ; do
4379 for pop in CEU YRI ASI ; do
4380 rm -f $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-all $platf/hapmap-rs-all
4381 cat $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-* > $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-all
4382 cat $platf/hapmap-rs-* > $platf/hapmap-rs-all
4387 executing source block with sh...
4388 finished executing source block
4389 string-equal: Args out of range: "", -1, 0
4391 the error =string-equal: Args out of range: "", -1, 0= looks like what
4392 used to be output when the block returned an empty results string.
4393 This should be fixed in the current version, you should now see the
4394 following message =no result returned by source block=.
4396 ** DONE ruby arrays not recognized as such
4398 Something is wrong in [[file:lisp/org-babel-script.el]] related to the
4399 recognition of ruby arrays as such.
4401 #+begin_src ruby :results replace
4407 #+begin_src python :results replace
4412 ** REJECTED elisp reference fails for literal number
4413 That's a bug in Dan's elisp, not in org-babel.
4414 #+srcname: elisp-test(a=4)
4415 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
4427 Evaluate all the cells in this table for a comprehensive test of the
4428 org-babel functionality.
4430 *Note*: if you have customized =org-babel-default-header-args= then some
4431 of these tests may fail.
4433 #+TBLNAME: org-babel-tests
4434 | functionality | block | arg | expected | results | pass |
4435 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4436 | basic evaluation | | | | | pass |
4437 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4438 | emacs lisp | basic-elisp | | 5 | 5 | pass |
4439 | shell | basic-shell | | 6 | 6 | pass |
4440 | ruby | basic-ruby | | org-babel | org-babel | pass |
4441 | python | basic-python | | hello world | hello world | pass |
4442 | R | basic-R | | 13 | 13 | pass |
4443 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4444 | tables | | | | | pass |
4445 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4446 | emacs lisp | table-elisp | | 3 | 3 | pass |
4447 | ruby | table-ruby | | 1-2-3 | 1-2-3 | pass |
4448 | python | table-python | | 5 | 5 | pass |
4449 | R | table-R | | 3.5 | 3.5 | pass |
4450 | R: col names in R | table-R-colnames | | -3 | -3 | pass |
4451 | R: col names in org | table-R-colnames-org | | 169 | 169 | pass |
4452 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4453 | source block references | | | | | pass |
4454 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4455 | all languages | chained-ref-last | | Array | Array | pass |
4456 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4457 | source block functions | | | | | pass |
4458 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4459 | emacs lisp | defun-fibb | | fibbd | fibbd | pass |
4460 | run over | Fibonacci | 0 | 1 | 1 | pass |
4461 | a | Fibonacci | 1 | 1 | 1 | pass |
4462 | variety | Fibonacci | 2 | 2 | 2 | pass |
4463 | of | Fibonacci | 3 | 3 | 3 | pass |
4464 | different | Fibonacci | 4 | 5 | 5 | pass |
4465 | arguments | Fibonacci | 5 | 8 | 8 | pass |
4466 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4467 | bugs and tasks | | | | | pass |
4468 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4469 | simple ruby arrays | ruby-array-test | | 3 | 3 | pass |
4470 | R number evaluation | bug-R-number-evaluation | | 2 | 2 | pass |
4471 | multi-line ruby blocks | multi-line-ruby-test | | 2 | 2 | pass |
4472 | forcing vector results | test-forced-vector-results | | Array | Array | pass |
4473 | deeply nested arguments | deeply-nested-args-bug | | 4 | 4 | pass |
4474 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4475 | sessions | | | | | pass |
4476 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
4477 | set ruby session | set-ruby-session-var | | :set | :set | pass |
4478 | get from ruby session | get-ruby-session-var | | 3 | 3 | pass |
4479 | set python session | set-python-session-var | | set | set | pass |
4480 | get from python session | get-python-session-var | | 4 | 4 | pass |
4481 | set R session | set-R-session-var | | set | set | pass |
4482 | get from R session | get-R-session-var | | 5 | 5 | pass |
4483 #+TBLFM: $5='(if (= (length $3) 1) (progn (message (format "running %S" '(sbe $2 (n $3)))) (sbe $2 (n $3))) (sbe $2))::$6='(if (string= $4 $5) "pass" (format "expected %S but was %S" $4 $5))
4484 #+TBLFM: $5=""::$6=""
4487 The second TBLFM line (followed by replacing '[]' with '') can be used
4488 to blank out the table results, in the absence of a better method.
4492 #+srcname: basic-elisp
4493 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
4498 #+srcname: basic-shell
4499 #+begin_src sh :results silent
4504 #+srcname: date-simple
4505 #+begin_src sh :results silent
4509 #+srcname: basic-ruby
4510 #+begin_src ruby :results silent
4515 #+srcname: basic-python
4516 #+begin_src python :results silent
4522 #+begin_src R :results silent
4530 #+tblname: test-table
4534 #+tblname: test-table-colnames
4535 | var1 | var2 | var3 |
4536 |------+------+------|
4540 #+srcname: table-elisp
4541 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent :var table=test-table
4542 (length (car table))
4546 #+srcname: table-ruby
4547 #+begin_src ruby :results silent :var table=test-table
4548 table.first.join("-")
4552 #+srcname: table-python
4553 #+begin_src python :var table=test-table
4557 #+srcname: table-R(table=test-table)
4562 #+srcname: table-R-colnames(table=test-table-colnames)
4563 #+begin_src R :results silent
4564 sum(table$var2 - table$var3)
4567 #+srcname: R-square(x=default-name-doesnt-exist)
4568 #+begin_src R :colnames t
4572 This should return 169. The fact that R is able to use the column name
4573 to index the data frame (x$var3) proves that a table with column names
4574 (a header row) has been recognised as input for the R-square function
4575 block, and that the R-square block has output an elisp table with
4576 column names, and that the colnames have again been recognised when
4577 creating the R variables in this block.
4578 #+srcname: table-R-colnames-org(x = R-square(x=test-table-colnames))
4588 Lets pass a references through all of our languages...
4590 Lets start by reversing the table from the previous examples
4592 #+srcname: chained-ref-first
4593 #+begin_src python :var table = test-table
4598 #+resname: chained-ref-first
4602 Take the first part of the list
4604 #+srcname: chained-ref-second
4605 #+begin_src R :var table = chained-ref-first
4609 #+resname: chained-ref-second
4613 Turn the numbers into string
4615 #+srcname: chained-ref-third
4616 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table = chained-ref-second
4617 (mapcar (lambda (el) (format "%S" el)) table)
4620 #+resname: chained-ref-third
4623 and Check that it is still a list
4625 #+srcname: chained-ref-last
4626 #+begin_src ruby :var table=chained-ref-third
4631 ** source blocks as functions
4633 #+srcname: defun-fibb
4634 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
4635 (defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
4639 #+srcname: fibonacci
4640 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent :var n=7
4650 ** sbe tests (these don't seem to be working...)
4651 Testing the insertion of results into org-mode tables.
4653 #+srcname: multi-line-output
4654 #+begin_src ruby :results replace
4655 "the first line ends here
4658 and this is the second one
4664 : the first line ends here\n\n\n and this is the second one\n\neven a third
4666 #+srcname: multi-line-error
4667 #+begin_src ruby :results replace
4668 raise "oh nooooooooooo"
4674 | the first line ends here... | -:5: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version... |
4675 #+TBLFM: $1='(sbe "multi-line-output")::$2='(sbe "multi-line-error")
4677 ** forcing results types tests
4679 #+srcname: test-trivial-vector
4680 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results vector silent
4684 #+srcname: test-forced-vector-results
4685 #+begin_src ruby :var triv=test-trivial-vector :results silent
4691 #+srcname: set-ruby-session-var
4692 #+begin_src ruby :session :results silent
4697 #+srcname: get-ruby-session-var
4698 #+begin_src ruby :session :results silent
4702 #+srcname: set-python-session-var
4703 #+begin_src python :session
4708 #+srcname: get-python-session-var
4709 #+begin_src python :session
4713 #+srcname: set-R-session-var
4714 #+begin_src R :session
4719 #+srcname: get-R-session-var
4720 #+begin_src R :session
4729 To run these examples evaluate [[file:lisp/org-babel-init.el][org-babel-init.el]]
4731 ** org-babel.el beginning functionality
4733 #+begin_src sh :results replace
4738 : Sun Jul 5 18:54:39 EDT 2009
4745 : Sun Jul 05 18:54:35 -0400 2009
4757 #+begin_src R :results replace
4767 hist(rgamma(20,3,3))
4772 ** org-babel plays with tables
4773 Alright, this should demonstrate both the ability of org-babel to read
4774 tables into a lisp source code block, and to then convert the results
4775 of the source code block into an org table. It's using the classic
4776 "lisp is elegant" demonstration transpose function. To try this
4779 1. evaluate [[file:lisp/org-babel-init.el]] to load org-babel and friends
4780 2. evaluate the transpose definition =\C-c\\C-c= on the beginning of
4782 3. evaluate the next source code block, this should read in the table
4783 because of the =:var table=previous=, then transpose the table, and
4784 finally it should insert the transposed table into the buffer
4785 immediately following the block
4789 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
4790 (defun transpose (table)
4791 (apply #'mapcar* #'list table))
4799 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table=sandbox :results replace
4804 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
4809 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
4813 #+begin_src ruby :var table=sandbox :results replace
4814 table.first.join(" - ")
4820 #+begin_src python :var table=sandbox
4825 #+begin_src ruby :var table=sandbox :results replace
4830 : [[1, 2, 3], [4, "schulte", 6]]
4834 | 4 | "schulte" | 6 |
4836 #+begin_src python :var table=sandbox :results replace
4842 | "__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" |
4844 *** (sandbox table) R
4846 #+TBLNAME: sandbox_r
4850 #+begin_src R :results replace
4851 x <- c(rnorm(10, mean=-3, sd=1), rnorm(10, mean=3, sd=1))
4855 | -3.35473133869346 |
4857 | -3.32819924928633 |
4858 | -2.97310212756194 |
4859 | -2.09640758369576 |
4860 | -5.06054014378736 |
4861 | -2.20713700711221 |
4862 | -1.37618039712037 |
4863 | -1.95839385821742 |
4864 | -3.90407396475502 |
4865 | 2.51168071590226 |
4866 | 3.96753011570494 |
4867 | 3.31793212627865 |
4868 | 1.99829753972341 |
4869 | 4.00403686419829 |
4870 | 4.63723764452927 |
4871 | 3.94636744261313 |
4872 | 3.58355906547775 |
4873 | 3.01563442274226 |
4876 #+begin_src R var tabel=sandbox_r :results replace
4881 | 4 | "schulte" | 6 |
4884 Now shell commands are converted to tables using =org-table-import=
4885 and if these tables are non-trivial (i.e. have multiple elements) then
4886 they are imported as org-mode tables...
4888 #+begin_src sh :results replace
4892 | "total" | 208 | "" | "" | "" | "" | "" | "" |
4893 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 57 | 2009 | 15 | "block" |
4894 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 35147 | 2009 | 15 | "COPYING" |
4895 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 722 | 2009 | 18 | "examples.org" |
4896 | "drwxr-xr-x" | 4 | "dan" | "dan" | 4096 | 2009 | 19 | "existing_tools" |
4897 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 2207 | 2009 | 14 | "intro.org" |
4898 | "drwxr-xr-x" | 2 | "dan" | "dan" | 4096 | 2009 | 18 | "org-babel" |
4899 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 277 | 2009 | 20 | "README.markdown" |
4900 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 11837 | 2009 | 18 | "rorg.html" |
4901 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 61829 | 2009 | 19 | "#rorg.org#" |
4902 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 60190 | 2009 | 19 | "rorg.org" |
4903 | "-rw-r--r--" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 972 | 2009 | 11 | "test-export.org" |
4906 ** silent evaluation
4914 #+begin_src ruby :results silent
4918 #+begin_src ruby :results replace
4925 ** (sandbox) referencing other source blocks
4926 Doing this in emacs-lisp first because it's trivial to convert
4927 emacs-lisp results to and from emacs-lisp.
4929 *** emacs lisp source reference
4930 This first example performs a calculation in the first source block
4931 named =top=, the results of this calculation are then saved into the
4932 variable =first= by the header argument =:var first=top=, and it is
4933 used in the calculations of the second source block.
4936 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
4940 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var first=top :results replace
4946 This example is the same as the previous only the variable being
4947 passed through is a table rather than a number.
4949 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
4950 (defun transpose (table)
4951 (apply #'mapcar* #'list table))
4954 #+TBLNAME: top_table
4958 #+SRCNAME: second_src_example
4959 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table=top_table
4963 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table=second_src_example :results replace
4968 | 4 | "schulte" | 6 |
4970 Now working for ruby
4977 #+begin_src ruby :var other=start :results replace
4983 #+SRCNAME: start_two
4988 #+begin_src python :var another=start_two :results replace
4993 Since all variables are converted into Emacs Lisp it is no problem to
4994 reference variables specified in another language.
4996 #+SRCNAME: ruby-block
5001 #+SRCNAME: lisp_block
5002 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var ruby-variable=ruby-block
5006 #+begin_src python :var lisp_var=lisp_block
5015 #+begin_src R :results replace
5022 #+begin_src R :var other=first_r :results replace
5029 ** (sandbox) selective export
5031 For exportation tests and examples see (including exportation of
5032 inline source code blocks) [[file:test-export.org]]
5035 ** (sandbox) source blocks as functions
5038 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
5043 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var n=default :results replace
5049 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var result=triple(n=3, m=98) :results replace
5055 The following just demonstrates the ability to assign variables to
5056 literal values, which was not implemented until recently.
5058 #+begin_src ruby :var num="eric" :results replace
5065 ** (sandbox) inline source blocks
5067 This is an inline source code block src_ruby{1 + 6}. And another
5068 source block with text output src_emacs-lisp{"eric"}.
5070 This is an inline source code block with header
5071 arguments. src_ruby[:var n=fibbd( n = 0 )]{n}
5074 ** (sandbox) integration w/org tables
5076 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
5077 (defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
5081 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var n=4 :results silent
5085 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
5086 (mapcar #'fibbd '(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8))
5089 Something is not working here. The function `sbe ' works fine when
5090 called from outside of the table (see the source block below), but
5091 produces an error when called from inside the table. I think there
5092 must be some narrowing going on during intra-table emacs-lisp
5095 | original | fibbd |
5096 |----------+-------|
5107 #+TBLFM: $2='(sbe "fibbd" (n $1))
5111 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
5112 (sbe 'fibbd (n "8"))
5117 LocalWords: DBlocks dblocks org-babel el eric fontification