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org-babel — facilitating communication between programming languages and people
- Introduction
- Tasks
[21/34]
- Create objects in top level (global) environment in R?
- fully purge org-babel-R of direct comint interaction
- improve the source-block snippet
- resolve references to other buffers
- figure out how to handle graphic output
- share org-babel
- command line execution
- inline source code blocks
[3/5]
- allow tables with hline to be passed as args into R
- PROPOSED conversion between org-babel and noweb (e.g. .Rnw) format
- PROPOSED support for passing paths to files between source blocks
- PROPOSED re-implement helper functions from org-R
- pass multiple reference arguments into R
- DEFERRED use textConnection to pass tsv to R?
- DEFERRED re-implement R evaluation using ess-command or ess-execute
- DEFERRED Rework Interaction with Running Processes
[0/3]
- ensure that table ranges work
- global variable indicating default to vector output
- name named results if source block is named
- (simple caching) check for named results before source blocks
- set
:results silent
when eval with prefix argument - results-type header (vector/file)
[3/3]
- results name
- org-babel tests org-babel
[1/1]
- make C-c C-c work anywhere within source code block?
- integration with org tables
- source blocks as functions
- folding of code blocks?
[2/2]
- selective export of text, code, figures
- a header argument specifying silent evaluation (no output)
- assign variables from tables in R
- insert 2-D R results as tables
- allow variable initialization from source blocks
- Add languages
[0/5]
- Bugs
[11/14]
- non-orgtbl formatted lists
- collapsing consecutive newlines in string output
- cursor movement when evaluating source blocks
- R-code broke on "org-babel" rename
- error on trivial R results
- ruby new variable creation (multi-line ruby blocks)
- R code execution seems to choke on certain inputs
- DEFERRED org bug/request: prevent certain org behaviour within code blocks
- with :results replace, non-table output doesn't replace table output
- extra quotes for nested string
- simple ruby arrays not working
- space trailing language name
- Args out of range error
- ruby arrays not recognized as such
- Tests
- Sandbox
- Buffer Dictionary
Introduction
Org-Babel enables communication between programming languages and between people.
Org-Babel provides:
- communication between programs
- Data passes seamlessly between different programming languages, text, and tables.
- communication between people
- Data and calculations are embedded in the same document as notes explanations and reports.
communication between programs
Org-Mode supports embedded blocks of source code (in any language) inside of Org documents. Org-Babel allows these blocks of code to be executed from within Org-Mode with natural handling of their inputs and outputs.
simple execution
with both scalar, file, and table output
reading information from tables
reading information from other source blocks (disk usage in your home directory)
This will work for Linux and Mac users, not so sure about shell commands for windows users.
To run place the cursor on the #+begin_src
line of the source block
labeled directory-pie and press \C-c\C-c
.
cd ~ && du -sc * |grep -v total
64 | "Desktop" |
11882808 | "Documents" |
8210024 | "Downloads" |
879800 | "Library" |
57344 | "Movies" |
7590248 | "Music" |
5307664 | "Pictures" |
0 | "Public" |
152 | "Sites" |
8 | "System" |
56 | "bin" |
3274848 | "mail" |
5282032 | "src" |
1264 | "tools" |
pie(dirs[,1], labels = dirs[,2])
operations in/on tables
student | grade | letter |
---|---|---|
1 | 88 | B |
2 | 63 | D |
3 | 89 | B |
4 | 7 | F |
5 | 86 | B |
6 | 77 | C |
case score
when 0..59: "F"
when 60..69: "D"
when 70..79: "C"
when 80..89: "B"
when 90..100: "A"
else "Invalid Score"
end
rand(100)
hist(grades[,2])
communication between people
Quick overview of Org-Mode's exportation abilities, with links to the online Org-Mode documentation, a focus on source-code blocks, and the exportation options provided by Org-Babel.
Interactive tutorial
This would demonstrate applicability to Reproducible Research, and Literate Programming.
Tests embedded in documentation
org-babels own functional tests are contained in a large org-mode table, allowing the test suite to be run be evaluation of the table and the results to be collected in the same table.
Tasks [21/34]
TODO Create objects in top level (global) environment in R?
initial requirement statement [DED]
At the moment, objects created by computations performed in the code block are evaluated in the scope of the code-block-function-body and therefore disappear when the code block is evaluated {unless you employ some extra trickery like assign('name', object, env=globalenv()) }. I think it will be desirable to also allow for a style wherein objects that are created in one code block persist in the R global environment and can be re-used in a separate block.
This is what Sweave does, and while I'm not saying we have to be the same as Sweave, it wouldn't be hard for us to provide the same behaviour in this case; if we don't, we risk undeservedly being written off as an oddity by some.
IOW one aspect of org-babel is that of a sort of functional meta-programming language. This is crazy, in a very good way. Nevertheless, wrt R I think there's going to be a lot of value in providing for a working style in which the objects are stored in the R session, rather than elisp/org buffer. This will be a very familiar working style to lots of people.
There are no doubt a number of different ways of accomplishing this, the simplest being a hack like adding
for(objname in ls())
assign(objname, get(objname), envir=globalenv())
to the source code block function body. (Maybe wrap it in an on.exit() call).
However this may deserve to be thought about more carefully, perhaps with a view to having a uniform approach across languages. E.g. shell code blocks have the same semantics at the moment (no persistence of variables across code blocks), because the body is evaluated in a new bash shell process rather than a running shell. And I guess the same is true for python. However, in both these cases, you could imagine implementing the alternative in which the body is evaluated in a persistent interactive session. It's just that it's particularly natural for R, seeing as both ESS and org-babel evaluate commands in a single persistent R session.
sessions [Eric]
Thanks for bringing this up. I think you are absolutely correct that we should provide support for a persistent environment (maybe called a session) in which to evaluate code blocks. I think the current setup demonstrates my personal bias for a functional style of programming which is certainly not ideal in all contexts.
While the R function you mention does look like an elegant solution, I think we should choose an implementation that would be the same across all source code types. Specifically I think we should allow the user to specify an optional session as a header variable (when not present we assume a default session for each language). The session name could be used to name a comint buffer (like the R buffer) in which all evaluation would take place (within which variables would retain their values –at least once I remove some of the functional method wrappings currently in place– ).
This would allow multiple environments to be used in the same buffer, and once this setup was implemented we should be able to fairly easily implement commands for jumping between source code blocks and the related session buffers, as well as for dumping the last N commands from a session into a new or existing source code block.
Please let me know if you foresee any problems with this proposed setup, or if you think any parts might be confusing for people coming from Sweave. I'll hopefully find some time to work on this later in the week.
implementation
Currently I've coppied and begun generalizing the functions for interacting with R buffers.
TODO fully purge org-babel-R of direct comint interaction
try to remove all code under the ;; functions for evaluation of R code line
TODO improve the source-block snippet
file:~/src/emacs-starter-kit/src/snippets/text-mode/rst-mode/chap::name Chapter title
,#name : Chapter title ,# -- ${1:Chapter} ${1:$(make-string (string-width text) ?\=)} $0
waiting for guidance from those more familiar with yasnippets
TODO resolve references to other buffers
This would allow source blocks to call upon tables, source-blocks, and results in other buffers.
See…
TODO figure out how to handle graphic output
This is listed under graphical output in out objectives.
This should take advantage of the :results file
option, and
languages which almost always produce graphical output should set
:results file
to true by default. That would handle placing these
results in the buffer. Then if there is a combination of silent
and
file
:results
headers we could drop the results to a temp buffer
and pop open that buffer…
TODO share org-babel
how should we share org-babel?
- post to org-mode and ess mailing lists
- create a org-babel page on worg
- create a short screencast demonstrating org-babel in action
examples
we need to think up some good examples
interactive tutorials
This could be a place to use org-babel assertions.
for example the first step of a tutorial could assert that the version of the software-package (or whatever) is equal to some value, then source-code blocks could be used with confidence (and executed directly from) the rest of the tutorial.
answering a text-book question w/code example
org-babel is an ideal environment enabling both the development and demonstrationg of the code snippets required as answers to many text-book questions.
something using tables
maybe something along the lines of calculations from collected grades
file sizes
Maybe something like the following which outputs sizes of directories
under the home directory, and then instead of the trivial emacs-lisp
block we could use an R block to create a nice pie chart of the
results.
du -sc ~/*
(mapcar #'car sizes)
TODO command line execution
Allow source code blocks to be called form the command line. This
will be easy using the sbe
function in org-babel-table.el.
This will rely upon resolve references to other buffers.
TODO
inline source code blocks [3/5]
Like the \R{ code }
blocks
not sure what the format should be, maybe just something simple
like src_lang[]{}
where lang is the name of the source code
language to be evaluated, []
is optional and contains any header
arguments and {}
contains the code.
(see the-sandbox)
DONE evaluation with \C-c\C-c
Putting aside the header argument issue for now we can just run these with the following default header arguments
-
:results
- silent
-
:exports
- results
DONE inline exportation
Need to add an interblock hook (or some such) through org-exp-blocks
DONE header arguments
We should make it possible to use header arguments.
TODO fontification
we should color these blocks differently
TODO refine html exportation
should use a span class, and should show original source in tool-tip
TODO allow tables with hline to be passed as args into R
This doesn't seem to work at the moment (example below). It would also be nice to have a natural way for the column names of the org table to become the column names of the R data frame, and to have the option to specify that the first column is to be used as row names in R (these must be unique). But this might require a bit of thinking about.
col1 | col2 | col3 |
---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | schulte | 6 |
tabel
Another example is in the grades example.
PROPOSED conversion between org-babel and noweb (e.g. .Rnw) format
I haven't thought about this properly. Just noting it down. What Sweave uses is called "R noweb" (.Rnw).
I found a good description of noweb in the following article (see the pdf).
I think there are two parts to noweb, the construction of documentation and the extraction of source-code (with notangle).
documentation: org-mode handles all of our documentation needs in a manner that I believe is superior to noweb.
source extraction At this point I don't see anyone writing large applications with 100% of the source code contained in org-babel files, rather I see org-babel files containing things like
- notes with active code chunks
- interactive tutorials
- requirements documents with code running test suites
- and of course experimental reports with the code to run the experiment, and perform analysis
Basically I think the scope of the programs written in org-babel (at least initially) will be small enough that it wont require the addition of a tangle type program to extract all of the source code into a running application.
On the other hand, since we already have named blocks of source code which reference other blocks on which they rely, this shouldn't be too hard to implement either on our own, or possibly relying on something like noweb/notangle.
PROPOSED support for passing paths to files between source blocks
Maybe this should be it's own result type (in addition to scalars and vectors). The reason being that some source-code blocks (for example ditaa or anything that results in the creation of a file) may want to pass a file path back to org-mode which could then be inserted into the org-mode buffer as a link to the file…
This would allow for display of images upon export providing
functionality similar to org-exp-blocks
only in a more general
manner.
PROPOSED re-implement helper functions from org-R
Much of the power of org-R seems to be in it's helper functions for the quick graphing of tables. Should we try to re-implement these functions on top of org-babel?
I'm thinking this may be useful both to add features to org-babel-R and also to potentially suggest extensions of the framework. For example one that comes to mind is the ability to treat a source-code block like a function which accepts arguments and returns results. Actually this can be it's own TODO (see source blocks as functions).
DONE pass multiple reference arguments into R
Can we do this? I wasn't sure how to supply multiple 'var' header args. Just delete this if I'm being dense.
This should be working, see the following example…
n + m
10
DEFERRED use textConnection to pass tsv to R?
When passing args from the org buffer to R, the following route is used: arg in buffer -> elisp -> tsv on file -> data frame in R. I think it would be possible to avoid having to write to file by constructing an R expression in org-babel-R-assign-elisp, something like this
(org-babel-R-input-command
(format "%s <- read.table(textConnection(\"%s\"), sep=\"\\t\", as.is=TRUE)"
name (orgtbl-to-tsv value '(:sep "\t" :fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field))))
I haven't tried to implement this yet as it's basically just fiddling with something that works. The only reason for it I can think of would be efficiency and I haven't tested that.
This Didn't work after an initial test. I still think this is a good idea (I also think we should try to do something similar when writing out results frmo R to elisp) however as it wouldn't result in any functional changes I'm bumping it down to deferred for now. [Eric]
for quick tests
1 | 2 | 3 |
mean(mean(vec))
2
DEFERRED re-implement R evaluation using ess-command or ess-execute
I don't have any complaints with the current R evaluation code or behaviour, but I think it would be good to use the ESS functions from a political point of view. Plus of course it has the normal benefits of an API (insulates us from any underlying changes etc). [DED]
I'll look into this. I believe that I looked at and rejected these functions initially but now I can't remember why. I agree with your overall point about using API's where available. I will take a look back at these and either switch to using the ess commands, or at least articulate under this TODO the reasons for using our custom R-interaction commands. [Eric]
ess-execute
Lets just replace org-babel-R-input-command
with ess-execute
.
I tried this, and although it works in some situations, I find that
ess-command
will often just hang indefinitely without returning
results. Also ess-execute
will occasionally hang, and pops up
the buffer containing the results of the command's execution, which
is undesirable. For now these functions can not be used. Maybe
someone more familiar with the ESS code can recommend proper usage
of ess-command
or some other lower-level function which could be
used in place of org-babel-R-input-command.
ess functions
(ess-command COM &optional BUF SLEEP NO-PROMPT-CHECK)
Send the ESS process command COM and delete the output from the ESS process buffer. If an optional second argument BUF exists save the output in that buffer. BUF is erased before use. COM should have a terminating newline. Guarantees that the value of .Last.value will be preserved. When optional third arg SLEEP is non-nil, `(sleep-for (* a SLEEP))' will be used in a few places where `a' is proportional to `ess-cmd-delay'.
(ess-execute COMMAND &optional INVERT BUFF MESSAGE)
Send a command to the ESS process. A newline is automatically added to COMMAND. Prefix arg (or second arg INVERT) means invert the meaning of `ess-execute-in-process-buffer'. If INVERT is 'buffer, output is forced to go to the process buffer. If the output is going to a buffer, name it BUFF. This buffer is erased before use. Optional fourth arg MESSAGE is text to print at the top of the buffer (defaults to the command if BUFF is not given.)
out current setup
- The body of the R source code block is wrapped in a function
- The function is called inside of a
write.table
function call writing the results to a table - The table is read using
org-table-import
DEFERRED Rework Interaction with Running Processes [0/3]
TODO ability to select which of multiple sessions is being used
Increasingly it is looking like we're going to want to run all source code blocks in comint buffer (sessions). Which will have the benefits of
- allowing background execution
-
maintaining state between source-blocks
- allowing inline blocks w/o header arguments
R sessions
(like ess-switch-process in .R buffers)
Maybe this could be packaged into a header argument, something
like :R_session
which could accept either the name of the
session to use, or the string prompt
, in which case we could use
the ess-switch-process
command to select a new process.
TODO evaluation of shell code as background process?
After C-c C-c on an R code block, the process may appear to block, but C-g can be used to reclaim control of the .org buffer, without interrupting the R evalution. However I believe this is not true of bash/sh evaluation. [Haven't tried other languages] Perhaps a solution is just to background the individual shell commands.
The other languages (aside from emacs lisp) are run through the shell, so if we find a shell solution it should work for them as well.
Adding an ampersand seems to be a supported way to run commands in the background (see external-commands). Although a more extensible solution may involve the use of the call-process-region function.
Going to try this out in a new file org-babel-proc.el. This should contain functions for asynchronously running generic shell commands in the background, and then returning their input.
partial update of org-mode buffer
The sleekest solution to this may be using a comint buffer, and then defining a filter function which would incrementally interpret the results as they are returned, including insertion into the org-mode buffer. This may actually cause more problems than it is worth, what with the complexities of identifying the types of incrementally returned results, and the need for maintenance of a process marker in the org buffer.
'working' spinner
It may be nice and not too difficult to place a spinner on/near the evaluating source code block
TODO conversion of output from interactive shell, R (and python) sessions to org-babel buffers
[DED] This would be a nice feature I think. Although an org-babel purist would say that it's working the wrong way round… After some interactive work in a R buffer, you save the buffer, maybe edit out some lines, and then convert it to org-babel format for posterity. Same for a shell session either in a shell buffer, or pasted from another terminal emulator. And python of course.
DONE ensure that table ranges work
when a table range is passed to org-babel as an argument, it should be interpreted as a vector.
1 | 2 | simple |
2 | 3 | Fixnum:1 |
3 | 4 | Array:123456 |
4 | 5 | |
5 | 6 | |
6 | 7 |
"simple"
"#{n.class}:#{n}"
n
Array:123
ar.size
3
DONE global variable indicating default to vector output
how about an alist… org-babel-default-header-args
this may already
exist… just execute the following and all source blocks will default
to vector output
(setq org-babel-default-header-args '((:results . "vector")))
DONE name named results if source block is named
currently this isn't happening although it should be
:namer
:namer
DONE (simple caching) check for named results before source blocks
see the TODO comment in org-babel-ref.el#org-babel-ref-resolve-reference
DONE
set :results silent
when eval with prefix argument
'silentp
DONE
results-type header (vector/file) [3/3]
In response to a point in Dan's email. We should allow the user to force scalar or vector results. This could be done with a header argument, and the default behavior could be controlled through a configuration variable.
:scalar
":scalar" |
since it doesn't make sense to turn a vector into a scalar, lets just add a two values…
- vector
- forces the results to be a vector (potentially 1 dimensional)
- file
- this throws an error if the result isn't a string, and tries to treat it as a path to a file.
I'm just going to cram all of these into the :results
header
argument. Then if we allow multiple header arguments it should
work out, for example one possible header argument string could be
:results replace vector file
, which would replace any existing
results forcing the results into an org-mode table, and
interpreting any strings as file paths.
DONE
multiple :results
headers
:schulte
DONE file result types
When inserting into an org-mode buffer create a link with the path
being the value, and optionally the display being the
file-name-nondirectory
if it exists.
"something"
This will be useful because blocks like ditaa
and dot
can return
the string path of their files, and can add file
to their results
header.
DONE vector result types
8
8 |
DONE results name
In order to do this we will need to start naming our results.
Since the source blocks are named with #+srcname:
lines we can
name results with #+resname:
lines (if the source block has no
name then no name is given to the #+resname:
line on creation,
otherwise the name of the source block is used).
This will have the additional benefit of allowing results and source blocks to be located in different places in a buffer (and eventually in different buffers entirely).
'schulte
Once source blocks are able to find their own #+resname:
lines
we then need to…
(sbe "developing-resnames")
schulte
TODO change the results insertion functions to use these lines
TODO
teach references to resolve #+resname
lines.
DONE
org-babel tests org-babel [1/1]
since we are accumulating this nice collection of source-code blocks in the sandbox section we should make use of them as unit tests. What's more, we should be able to actually use org-babel to run these tests.
We would just need to cycle over every source code block under the sandbox, run it, and assert that the return value is equal to what we expect.
I have the feeling that this should be possible using only org-babel functions with minimal or no additional elisp. It would be very cool for org-babel to be able to test itself.
This is now done, see /mirrors/org-mode/src/commit/eb29bef93fc564c6e5f4a330fa45897663871ef0/%2A%20Tests.
DEFERRED org-babel assertions (may not be necessary)
These could be used to make assertions about the results of a source-code block. If the assertion fails then the point could be moved to the block, and error messages and highlighting etc… could ensue
DONE make C-c C-c work anywhere within source code block?
This seems like it would be nice to me, but perhaps it would be inefficient or ugly in implementation? I suppose you could search forward, and if you find #+end_src before you find #+begin_src, then you're inside one. [DED]
Agreed, I think inside of the #+srcname: line
would be useful as
well.
'schulte
DONE integration with org tables
We should make it easy to call org-babel source blocks from org-mode table formulas. This is practical now that it is possible to pass arguments to org-babel source blocks.
See the related sandbox header for tests/examples.
digging in org-table.el
In the past org-table.el has proven difficult to work with.
Should be a hook in org-table-eval-formula.
Looks like I need to change this if statement (line 2239) into a cond expression.
DONE source blocks as functions
Allow source code blocks to be called like functions, with arguments specified. We are already able to call a source-code block and assign it's return result to a variable. This would just add the ability to specify the values of the arguments to the source code block assuming any exist. For an example see
When a variable appears in a header argument, how do we differentiate between it's value being a reference or a literal value? I guess this could work just like a programming language. If it's escaped or in quotes, then we count it as a literal, otherwise we try to look it up and evaluate it.
DONE
folding of code blocks? [2/2]
[DED] In similar way to using outline-minor-mode for folding function bodies, can we fold code blocks? #+begin whatever statements are pretty ugly, and in any case when you're thinking about the overall game plan you don't necessarily want to see the code for each Step.
DONE folding of source code block
Sounds good, and wasn't too hard to implement. Code blocks should now be fold-able in the same manner as headlines (by pressing TAB on the first line).
REJECTED folding of results
So, lets do a three-stage tab cycle… First fold the src block, then fold the results, then unfold.
There's no way to tell if the results are a table or not w/o actually executing the block which would be too expensive of an operation.
DONE selective export of text, code, figures
[DED] The org-babel buffer contains everything (code, headings and notes/prose describing what you're up to, textual/numeric/graphical code output, etc). However on export to html / LaTeX one might want to include only a subset of that content. For example you might want to create a presentation of what you've done which omits the code.
[EMS] So I think this should be implemented as a property which can
be set globally or on the outline header level (I need to review
the mechanics of org-mode properties). And then as a source block
header argument which will apply only to a specific source code
block. A header argument of :export
with values of
-
code
- just show the code in the source code block
-
none
- don't show the code or the results of the evaluation
-
results
- just show the results of the code evaluation (don't show the actual code)
-
both
- show both the source code, and the results
this will be done in (sandbox) selective export.
DONE a header argument specifying silent evaluation (no output)
This would be useful across all types of source block. Currently
there is a :replace t
option to control output, this could be
generalized to an :output
option which could take the following
options (maybe more)
-
t
- this would be the default, and would simply insert the results after the source block
-
replace
- to replace any results which may already be there
-
silent
- this would inhibit any insertion of the results
This is now implemented see the example in the sandbox
DONE assign variables from tables in R
This is now working (see (sandbox-table)-R). Although it's not that impressive until we are able to print table results from R.
DONE insert 2-D R results as tables
everything is working but R and shell
DONE shells
DONE R
This has already been tackled by Dan in org-R:check-dimensions. The functions there should be useful in combination with R-export-to-csv as a means of converting multidimensional R objects to emacs lisp.
It may be as simple as first checking if the data is multidimensional,
and then, if so using write
to write the data out to a temporary
file from which emacs can read the data in using org-table-import
.
Looking into this further, is seems that there is no such thing as a scalar in R R-scalar-vs-vector In that light I am not sure how to deal with trivial vectors (scalars) in R. I'm tempted to just treat them as vectors, but then that would lead to a proliferation of trivial 1-cell tables…
DONE allow variable initialization from source blocks
Currently it is possible to initialize a variable from an org-mode
table with a block argument like table=sandbox
(note that the
variable doesn't have to named table
) as in the following example
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | schulte | 6 |
(message (format "table = %S" table))
"table = ((1 2 3) (4 \"schulte\" 6))"
It would be good to allow initialization of variables from the results
of other source blocks in the same manner. This would probably
require the addition of #+SRCNAME: example
lines for the naming of
source blocks, also the table=sandbox
syntax may have to be expanded
to specify whether the target is a source code block or a table
(alternately we could just match the first one with the given name
whether it's a table or a source code block).
At least initially I'll try to implement this so that there is no need to specify whether the reference is to a table or a source-code block. That seems to be simpler both in terms of use and implementation.
This is now working for emacs-lisp, ruby and python (and mixtures of the three) source blocks. See the examples in the sandbox.
This is currently working only with emacs lisp as in the following example in the emacs lisp source reference.
TODO
Add languages [0/5]
I'm sure there are many more that aren't listed here. Please add them, and bubble any that you particularly care about up to the top.
Any new language should be implemented in a org-babel-lang.el file. Follow the pattern set by org-babel-script.el, org-babel-shell.el and org-babel-R.el.
TODO perl
This could probably be added to org-babel-script.el
TODO java
TODO ditaa
(see file result types)
TODO dot
(see file result types)
TODO asymptote
(see file result types)
Bugs [11/14]
TODO non-orgtbl formatted lists
for example
'((:results . "replace"))
TODO collapsing consecutive newlines in string output
"the first line ends here
and this is the second one
even a third"
the first line ends here and this is the second one return even a third
TODO cursor movement when evaluating source blocks
E.g. the pie chart example. Despite the save-window-excursion in org-babel-execute:R. (I never learned how to do this properly: org-R jumps all over the place…)
DONE R-code broke on "org-babel" rename
8 * 2
DONE error on trivial R results
So I know it's generally not a good idea to squash error without
handling them, but in this case the error almost always means that
there was no file contents to be read by org-table-import
, so I
think it's ok.
pie(c(1, 2, 3), labels = c(1, 2, 3))
8
8
c(1,2,3)
1 |
2 |
3 |
DONE ruby new variable creation (multi-line ruby blocks)
Actually it looks like we were dropping all but the last line.
total = 0
table.each{|n| total += n}
total/table.size
2
DONE R code execution seems to choke on certain inputs
Currently the R code seems to work on vertical (but not landscape) tables
"schulte"
num
schulte 11 11 11 schulte 9 9 11
(setq debug-on-error t)
'(1 2 3)
mean(mean(table))
2
1 |
2 |
3 |
mean(table)
DEFERRED org bug/request: prevent certain org behaviour within code blocks
E.g. gets recognised as a link (when there's text inside the brackets). This is bad for R code at least, and more generally could be argued to be inappropriate. Is it difficult to get org to ignore text in code blocks? [DED]
I believe Carsten addressed this recently on the mailing list with the comment that it was indeed a difficult issue. I believe this may be one area where we could wait for an upstream (org-mode) fix.
DONE with :results replace, non-table output doesn't replace table output
And vice versa. E.g. Try this first with table and then with len(table) [DED]
table
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | "schulte" | 6 |
2
Yes, this is certainly a problem. I fear that if we begin replacing anything immediately following a source block (regardless of whether it matches the type of our current results) we may accidentally delete hand written portions of the user's org-mode buffer.
I think that the best solution here would be to actually start labeling results with a line that looks something like…
This would have a couple of benefits…
- we wouldn't have to worry about possibly deleting non-results (which is currently an issue)
- we could reliably replace results even if there are different types
- we could reference the results of a source-code block in variable definitions, which would be useful if for example we don't wish to re-run a source-block every time because it is long-running.
Thoughts? If no-one objects, I believe I will implement the labeling of results.
DONE extra quotes for nested string
Well R appears to be reading the tables without issue…
these should be quoted
ls
"COPYING" |
"README.markdown" |
"block" |
"examples.org" |
"existing_tools" |
"intro.org" |
"org-babel" |
"rorg.org" |
"test-export.html" |
"test-export.org" |
tab[1][0]
README.markdown
as.matrix(tab[2,])
README.markdown
DONE simple ruby arrays not working
As an example eval the following. Adding a line to test
[3, 4, 5]
ar.first
DONE space trailing language name
fix regexp so it works when there's a space trailing the language name
:schulte
DONE Args out of range error
The following block resulted in the error below [DED]. It ran without error directly in the shell.
cd ~/work/genopca
for platf in ill aff ; do
for pop in CEU YRI ASI ; do
rm -f $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-all $platf/hapmap-rs-all
cat $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-* > $platf/hapmap-genos-$pop-all
cat $platf/hapmap-rs-* > $platf/hapmap-rs-all
done
done
executing source block with sh… finished executing source block string-equal: Args out of range: "", -1, 0
the error string-equal: Args out of range: "", -1, 0
looks like what
used to be output when the block returned an empty results string.
This should be fixed in the current version, you should now see the
following message no result returned by source block
.
DONE ruby arrays not recognized as such
Something is wrong in /mirrors/org-mode/src/commit/eb29bef93fc564c6e5f4a330fa45897663871ef0/lisp/org-babel-script.el related to the recognition of ruby arrays as such.
[1, 2, 3, 4]
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
[1, 2, 3, 4]
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Tests
Evaluate all the cells in this table for a comprehensive test of the org-babel functionality.
Note: if you have customized org-babel-default-header-args
then some
of these tests may fail.
functionality | block | arg | expected | results | pass |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
basic evaluation | pass | ||||
emacs lisp | basic-elisp | 5 | 5 | pass | |
shell | basic-shell | 6 | 6 | pass | |
ruby | basic-ruby | org-babel | org-babel | pass | |
python | basic-python | hello world | hello world | pass | |
R | basic-R | 13 | 13 | pass | |
tables | pass | ||||
emacs lisp | table-elisp | 3 | 3 | pass | |
ruby | table-ruby | 1-2-3 | 1-2-3 | pass | |
python | table-python | 5 | 5 | pass | |
R | table-R | 3.5 | 3.5 | pass | |
source block references | pass | ||||
all languages | chained-ref-last | Array | Array | pass | |
source block functions | pass | ||||
emacs lisp | defun-fibb | fibbd | fibbd | pass | |
run over | Fibonacci | 0 | 1 | 1 | pass |
a | Fibonacci | 1 | 1 | 1 | pass |
variety | Fibonacci | 2 | 2 | 2 | pass |
of | Fibonacci | 3 | 3 | 3 | pass |
different | Fibonacci | 4 | 5 | 5 | pass |
arguments | Fibonacci | 5 | 8 | 8 | pass |
bugs and tasks | pass | ||||
simple ruby arrays | ruby-array-test | 3 | 3 | pass | |
R number evaluation | bug-R-number-evaluation | 2 | 2 | pass | |
multi-line ruby blocks | multi-line-ruby-test | 2 | 2 | pass | |
forcing vector results | test-forced-vector-results | Array | Array | pass |
basic tests
(+ 1 4)
expr 1 + 5
"org-babel"
'hello world'
b <- 9
b + 4
read tables
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | 5 | 6 |
(length (car table))
table.first.join("-")
table[1][1]
mean(mean(table))
references
Lets pass a references through all of our languages…
Lets start by reversing the table from the previous examples
table.reverse()
table
4 | 5 | 6 |
1 | 2 | 3 |
Take the first part of the list
table[1]
4 |
1 |
Turn the numbers into string
(mapcar (lambda (el) (format "%S" el)) table)
"(4)" | "(1)" |
and Check that it is still a list
table.class.name
source blocks as functions
(defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
(fibbd n)
sbe tests
Testing the insertion of results into org-mode tables.
"the first line ends here
and this is the second one
even a third"
the first line ends here and this is the second one return even a third
raise "oh nooooooooooo"
-:5: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version -:5:in `main': oh nooooooooooo (RuntimeError) from -:8
the first line ends here… | -:5: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version… |
forcing results types tests
8
triv.class.name
Sandbox
To run these examples evaluate org-babel-init.el
org-babel.el beginning functionality
date
Thu May 14 18:52:25 EDT 2009
Time.now
Thu May 14 18:59:09 -0400 2009
"Hello World"
Hello World
org-babel-R
a <- 9
b <- 16
a + b
25
hist(rgamma(20,3,3))
org-babel plays with tables
Alright, this should demonstrate both the ability of org-babel to read tables into a lisp source code block, and to then convert the results of the source code block into an org table. It's using the classic "lisp is elegant" demonstration transpose function. To try this out…
- evaluate /mirrors/org-mode/src/commit/eb29bef93fc564c6e5f4a330fa45897663871ef0/lisp/org-babel-init.el to load org-babel and friends
- evaluate the transpose definition
\C-c\C-c
on the beginning of the source block - evaluate the next source code block, this should read in the table
because of the
:var table=previous
, then transpose the table, and finally it should insert the transposed table into the buffer immediately following the block
Emacs lisp
(defun transpose (table)
(apply #'mapcar* #'list table))
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | schulte | 6 |
(transpose table)
'(1 2 3 4 5)
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Ruby and Python
table.first.join(" - ")
"1 - 2 - 3"
table[0]
1 | 2 | 3 |
table
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | "schulte" | 6 |
len(table)
2
"add" | "class" | "contains" | "delattr" | "delitem" | "delslice" | "doc" | "eq" | "format" | "ge" | "getattribute" | "getitem" | "getslice" | "gt" | "hash" | "iadd" | "imul" | "init" | "iter" | "le" | "len" | "lt" | "mul" | "ne" | "new" | "reduce" | "reduce_ex" | "repr" | "reversed" | "rmul" | "setattr" | "setitem" | "setslice" | "sizeof" | "str" | "subclasshook" | "append" | "count" | "extend" | "index" | "insert" | "pop" | "remove" | "reverse" | "sort" |
(sandbox table) R
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | schulte | 6 |
x <- c(rnorm(10, mean=-3, sd=1), rnorm(10, mean=3, sd=1))
x
-3.35473133869346 |
-2.45714878661 |
-3.32819924928633 |
-2.97310212756194 |
-2.09640758369576 |
-5.06054014378736 |
-2.20713700711221 |
-1.37618039712037 |
-1.95839385821742 |
-3.90407396475502 |
2.51168071590226 |
3.96753011570494 |
3.31793212627865 |
1.99829753972341 |
4.00403686419829 |
4.63723764452927 |
3.94636744261313 |
3.58355906547775 |
3.01563442274226 |
1.7634976849927 |
tabel
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | "schulte" | 6 |
shell
Now shell commands are converted to tables using org-table-import
and if these tables are non-trivial (i.e. have multiple elements) then
they are imported as org-mode tables…
ls -l
"total" | 208 | "" | "" | "" | "" | "" | "" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 57 | 2009 | 15 | "block" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 35147 | 2009 | 15 | "COPYING" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 722 | 2009 | 18 | "examples.org" |
"drwxr-xr-x" | 4 | "dan" | "dan" | 4096 | 2009 | 19 | "existing_tools" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 2207 | 2009 | 14 | "intro.org" |
"drwxr-xr-x" | 2 | "dan" | "dan" | 4096 | 2009 | 18 | "org-babel" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 277 | 2009 | 20 | "README.markdown" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 11837 | 2009 | 18 | "rorg.html" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 61829 | 2009 | 19 | "#rorg.org#" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 60190 | 2009 | 19 | "rorg.org" |
"-rw-r–r–" | 1 | "dan" | "dan" | 972 | 2009 | 11 | "test-export.org" |
silent evaluation
:im_the_results
:im_the_results
:im_the_results
:im_the_results_
:im_the_results_
(sandbox) referencing other source blocks
Doing this in emacs-lisp first because it's trivial to convert emacs-lisp results to and from emacs-lisp.
emacs lisp source reference
This first example performs a calculation in the first source block
named top
, the results of this calculation are then saved into the
variable first
by the header argument :var first=top
, and it is
used in the calculations of the second source block.
(+ 4 2)
(* first 3)
18
This example is the same as the previous only the variable being passed through is a table rather than a number.
(defun transpose (table)
(apply #'mapcar* #'list table))
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | schulte | 6 |
(transpose table)
(transpose table)
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | "schulte" | 6 |
ruby python
Now working for ruby
89
2 * other
and for python
98
another*3
mixed languages
Since all variables are converted into Emacs Lisp it is no problem to reference variables specified in another language.
2
(* ruby-variable 8)
lisp_var + 4
20
R
a <- 9
a
9
other + 2
11
(sandbox) selective export
For exportation tests and examples see (including exportation of inline source code blocks) /mirrors/org-mode/src/commit/eb29bef93fc564c6e5f4a330fa45897663871ef0/test-export.org
(sandbox) source blocks as functions
5
(* 3 n)
15
result
294
The following just demonstrates the ability to assign variables to literal values, which was not implemented until recently.
num+" schulte "
"eric schulte "
(sandbox) inline source blocks
This is an inline source code block
1 + 6
This is an inline source code block with header arguments.
n
(sandbox) integration w/org tables
(defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
(fibbd n)
(mapcar #'fibbd '(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8))
Something is not working here. The function `sbe ' works fine when called from outside of the table (see the source block below), but produces an error when called from inside the table. I think there must be some narrowing going on during intra-table emacs-lisp evaluation.
original | fibbd |
---|---|
0 | 1 |
1 | 1 |
2 | 2 |
3 | 3 |
4 | 5 |
5 | 8 |
6 | 13 |
7 | 21 |
8 | 34 |
9 | 55 |
silent-result
(sbe 'fibbd (n "8"))
Buffer Dictionary
LocalWords: DBlocks dblocks org-babel el eric fontification