Dan I have started a new thread so it has a propel babel string. I have also created a small file for testing. The colnames t works as expected, but how do I then see the variable names when using the summary command, and str doesn't work at all (source block produced no output) . They appear OK in the R buffer. Orgmode+babel output below Graham #+srcname:babeltest #+begin_src R :colnames t babeltest<-read.csv("/home/graham/Dropbox/myotis/Learn/learn/babeltest.csv",header=TRUE) #+end_src #+resname: babeltest | "ID" | "var1" | "var2" | "var3" | |------+--------+--------+--------| | 1 | 34 | 1 | 400 | | 2 | 56 | 4 | 499 | | 3 | 78 | 3 | 500 | | 4 | 34 | 5 | 600 | | 5 | 56 | 6 | 500 | | 6 | 23 | 7 | 300 | | 7 | 45 | 5 | 200 | | 8 | 23 | 6 | 340 | | 9 | 89 | 7 | 400 | | 10 | 46 | 4 | 450 | #+begin_src R :session babeltest summary(babeltest) #+end_src #+resname: | "Min. : 1.00" | "Min. :23.0" | "Min. :1.0" | "Min. :200.0" | | "1st Qu.: 3.25" | "1st Qu.:34.0" | "1st Qu.:4.0" | "1st Qu.:355.0" | | "Median : 5.50" | "Median :45.5" | "Median :5.0" | "Median :425.0" | | "Mean : 5.50" | "Mean :48.4" | "Mean :4.8" | "Mean :418.9" | | "3rd Qu.: 7.75" | "3rd Qu.:56.0" | "3rd Qu.:6.0" | "3rd Qu.:499.8" | | "Max. :10.00" | "Max. :89.0" | "Max. :7.0" | "Max. :600.0" | #+begin_src R :session babeltest str(babeltest) #+end_src #+resname: