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From: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [babel] Uses for :session buffers
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:44:03 +0100
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Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> Aloha all,
> 
> I'm trying to comprehend the possibilities created by org-babel, and 
> would like to draw on the experience of others if I could.
> 
> I recently discovered the buffer created by :session.  In my case, this 
> is an R session that I am building to track the data collection phase of 
> a research project.  I was delighted to find that it appears to have 
> recorded everything my org file had done in that session.  I have a 
> vague idea that it might be useful to save this as a log to prove that 
> all the little source blocks in my org file indeed were called and 
> executed successfully. 
> 
> I'm wondering: do other org-babelers use the :session buffer?  How?  For 
> what purpose?
> 

Another advantage: you can set a variable in one source block
and access it in the next one.

Greetings,
	Stephan

> Any tips or advice will be appreciated.
> 
> All the best,
> Tom
> 
> Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.