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From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
Subject: Re: [babel] Passing of variables to R - usage of temporary file not
 ideal for tangling
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:37:23 +0100
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Hi Rainer,

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

> I just realized that babel is using temporary files when passing
> tables to R (no idea about other languages). This is OK when
> evaluating code blocks or exporting, but causes problems when
> tangling, as the temporary files are not available in a new session
> and handing on the tangled code or sourcing it from R becomes impossible.
>
> I would therefore suggest to change the mechanism of passing tables to
> R so that the tables are included in the tangled files.
>
> One option would be to use a direct 'text-connection' as describer in
> the R help of read.table(), last example.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer


there has been a thread about this about two years ago:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/51153

Regards,
Andreas