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From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] suggestion: wrap creation of graphics into try() block
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:00:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uua3g91.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52DD2660.3090403@krugs.de

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Hi
>
> I have two suggestions which are liked to each other. They are based
> on R code blocks, but the should be useful for other languages as well.
>
> I have a document in which I use :session for creating R graphs. These
> look like:
>
> #+begin_src R :file Correlation_1.pdf :results graphics
>   IFN.mean <- load.IFN.mean()
>   grid <- load.grid.CASTANEA.average()
>   image(IFN.mean)
> #+end_src
>
> Everything works fine, unless there is an error in one graph.
>
> In this case, the device remains open, which leaves open devices at
> the end of the export of the document.

I experience the same problem.  And would love to see that addressed.

>
> If the code block which should create the graph would be wrapped into
> a try() block, so that it would look like the following:
>
> try(
>   {
>   pdf("./Correlation_1.pdf")
>   IFN.mean <- load.IFN.mean()
>   grid <- load.grid.CASTANEA.average()
>   image(IFN.mean)
>   }
> )
> dev.off()
>
> The device would be closed even if an error occurred during the
> execution of the code.
>
> But still, when  exporting to pdf, the call to pdflatex fails as only
> a empty pdf is available. So it becomes necessary to go through the
> pdf log to identify the graphs which failed.
>
> In this case it would be useful, to have a placeholder grah in the
> final pdf, so that one can see which graphs did not work.
>
> In addition, this could be used as placeholders (well - they are
> placeholders) for to be created graphs, while the text has already
> been written.
>
> So my second suggestion would be to include a placeholder image, which
> would be used if the generation of the actual graph fails. It would be
> great (but not necessary) if the actual error message would be in the
> image.

Such an place holder image would be great, indeed.


Thanks for bringing this up!

Regards,
Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-20 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20 13:36 [babel] suggestion: wrap creation of graphics into try() block Rainer M Krug
2014-01-20 14:00 ` Andreas Leha [this message]
2014-01-20 15:13   ` Rainer M Krug
2014-01-20 15:28     ` Eric Schulte
2014-01-20 17:02       ` Rainer M Krug
2014-01-20 18:38         ` Eric Schulte
2014-01-21  9:52           ` Rainer M Krug
2014-01-21 10:03             ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-21 10:43               ` :draft header argument for source block evaluation - WAS: " Rainer M Krug
2014-01-26 18:07             ` Eric Schulte
2014-01-27  9:10               ` Rainer M Krug

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