#+title: The Library of Babel #+author: Org-mode People #+STARTUP: odd hideblocks * Introduction The Library of Babel is an extensible collection of ready-made and easily-shortcut-callable source-code blocks for handling common tasks. Org-babel comes pre-populated with the source-code blocks located in this file. It is possible to add source-code blocks from any org-mode file to the library by calling =(org-babel-lob-ingest "path/to/file.org")=. This file is included in worg mainly less for viewing through the web interface, and more for contribution through the worg git repository. If you have code snippets that you think others may find useful please add them to this file and [[file:~/src/worg/worg-git.org::contribute-to-worg][contribute them]] to worg. The raw Org-mode text of this file can be downloaded at [[repofile:contrib/babel/library-of-babel.org][library-of-babel.org]] * Simple A collection of simple utility functions #+srcname: echo #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var input="echo'd" input #+end_src * File I/O ** reading and writing files Read the contents of the file at =path= into a string. #+srcname: read #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var path="" (with-temp-filebuffer path (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))) #+end_src Read the lines of the file at =path= into a list. #+srcname: read-lines #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var path="" (split-string (with-temp-filebuffer path (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))) #+end_src Write =data= to a file at =path=. If =data= is a list, then write it as a table in traditional Org-mode table syntax. #+srcname: write #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var data="" :var path="" (with-temp-file path (org-babel-insert-result data)) nil #+end_src ** remote files **** json Read local or remote file in [[http://www.json.org/][json]] format into emacs-lisp objects. #+srcname: json #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var file='() :var url='() (require 'json) (cond (file (with-temp-filebuffer file (goto-char (point-min)) (json-read))) (url (require 'w3m) (with-temp-buffer (w3m-retrieve url) (goto-char (point-min)) (json-read)))) #+end_src **** Google docs The following code blocks make use of the [[http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/][googlecl]] Google command line tool. This tool provides functionality for accessing Google services from the command line, and the following code blocks use /googlecl/ for reading from and writing to Google docs with Org-mode code blocks. ****** read a document from Google docs The =google= command seems to be throwing "Moved Temporarily" errors when trying to download textual documents, but this is working fine for spreadsheets. #+source: gdoc-read #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var title="example" (let* ((format (if (member "vector" result-params) "csv" "txt")) (file (concat title "." format)) (cmd (format "google docs get --format %S --title %S" format title))) (message cmd) (message (shell-command-to-string cmd)) (prog1 (if (string= format "csv") (with-temp-buffer (org-table-import (shell-quote-argument file) nil) (org-table-to-lisp)) (with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents (shell-quote-argument file)) (buffer-string))) (delete-file file))) #+end_src For example, a line like the following can be used to read the contents of a spreadsheet named =num-cells= into a table. #+begin_src org ,#+call: gdoc-read(title="num-cells"") :results vector #+end_src A line like the following can be used to read the contents of a document as a string. #+begin_src org ,#+call: gdoc-read(title="loremi") :results scalar #+end_src ****** write a document to a Google docs Write =data= to a google document named =title=. If =data= is tabular it will be saved to a spreadsheet, otherwise it will be saved as a normal document. #+source: gdoc-write #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var title="babel-upload" :var data=fibs(n=10) :results silent (let* ((format (if (listp data) "csv" "txt")) (tmp-file (make-temp-file "org-babel-google-doc" nil (concat "." format))) (cmd (format "google docs upload --title %S %S" title tmp-file))) (with-temp-file tmp-file (insert (if (listp data) (orgtbl-to-csv data '(:fmt (lambda (el) (if (stringp el) el (format "%S" el))))) (if (stringp data) data (format "%S" data))))) (message cmd) (prog1 (shell-command-to-string cmd) (delete-file tmp-file))) #+end_src example usage #+begin_src org ,#+source: fibs ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var n=8 , (flet ((fib (m) (if (< m 2) 1 (+ (fib (- m 1)) (fib (- m 2)))))) , (mapcar (lambda (el) (list el (fib el))) (number-sequence 0 (- n 1)))) ,#+end_src ,#+call: gdoc-write(title="fibs", data=fibs(n=10)) #+end_src * Plotting code ** R Plot column 2 (y axis) against column 1 (x axis). Columns 3 and beyond, if present, are ignored. #+srcname: R-plot(data=R-plot-example-data) #+begin_src R plot(data) #+end_src #+tblname: R-plot-example-data | 1 | 2 | | 2 | 4 | | 3 | 9 | | 4 | 16 | | 5 | 25 | #+lob: R-plot(data=R-plot-example-data) #+resname: R-plot(data=R-plot-example-data) : nil ** Gnuplot * Tables ** LaTeX Table export *** booktabs This block can be used to wrap a table in the latex =booktabs= environment, it takes the following arguments -- all but the first two are optional. | arg | description | |-------+--------------------------------------------| | table | a reference to the table | | align | optional alignment string | | env | optional environment, default to "tabular" | | width | optional width specification string | #+srcname: booktabs #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table='((:head) hline (:body)) :var align='() :var env="tabular" :var width='() :noweb yes :results latex (flet ((to-tab (tab) (orgtbl-to-generic (mapcar (lambda (lis) (if (listp lis) (mapcar (lambda (el) (if (stringp el) el (format "%S" el))) lis) lis)) tab) (list :lend " \\\\" :sep " & " :hline "\\hline")))) (org-fill-template " \\begin{%env}%width%align \\toprule %table \\bottomrule \\end{%env}\n" (list (cons "env" (or env "table")) (cons "width" (if width (format "{%s}" width) "")) (cons "align" (if align (format "{%s}" align) "")) (cons "table" ;; only use \midrule if it looks like there are column headers (if (equal 'hline (second table)) (concat (to-tab (list (first table))) "\n\\midrule\n" (to-tab (cddr table))) (to-tab table)))))) #+end_src *** longtable This block can be used to wrap a table in the latex =longtable= environment, it takes the following arguments -- all but the first two are optional. | arg | description | |-----------+-------------------------------------------------------------| | table | a reference to the table | | align | optional alignment string | | width | optional width specification string | | hline | the string to use as hline separator, defaults to "\\hline" | | head | optional "head" string | | firsthead | optional "firsthead" string | | foot | optional "foot" string | | lastfoot | optional "lastfoot" string | #+srcname: longtable #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table='((:table)) :var align='() :var width='() :var hline="\\hline" :var firsthead='() :var head='() :var foot='() :var lastfoot='() :noweb yes :results latex (org-fill-template " \\begin{longtable}%width%align %firsthead %head %foot %lastfoot %table \\end{longtable}\n" (list (cons "width" (if width (format "{%s}" width) "")) (cons "align" (if align (format "{%s}" align) "")) (cons "firsthead" (if firsthead (concat firsthead "\n\\endfirsthead\n") "")) (cons "head" (if head (concat head "\n\\endhead\n") "")) (cons "foot" (if foot (concat foot "\n\\endfoot\n") "")) (cons "lastfoot" (if lastfoot (concat lastfoot "\n\\endlastfoot\n") "")) (cons "table" (orgtbl-to-generic (mapcar (lambda (lis) (if (listp lis) (mapcar (lambda (el) (if (stringp el) el (format "%S" el))) lis) lis)) table) (list :lend " \\\\" :sep " & " :hline hline))))) #+end_src ** Elegant lisp for transposing a matrix. #+tblname: transpose-example | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 | 5 | 6 | #+srcname: transpose #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table=transpose-example (apply #'mapcar* #'list table) #+end_src #+resname: | 1 | 4 | | 2 | 5 | | 3 | 6 | * Misc #+srcname: python-identity(a=1) #+begin_src python a #+end_src #+srcname: python-add(a=1, b=2) #+begin_src python a + b #+end_src