From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: Gather properties for use by babel source block? Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 10:16:36 -0400 Message-ID: <87k40oqdob.fsf@gmx.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43221) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQcI-0002Uh-GO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:16:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQcB-0007fu-UF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:16:54 -0400 Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com ([74.208.5.67]:57446) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQcB-0007et-Mi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:16:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Colin Hall's message of "Mon, 7 May 2012 15:52:04 +0000 (UTC)") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Colin Hall Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Colin Hall writes: > Tim Burt rochester.rr.com> writes: >> >> I want to gather data from properties into something that can be used by >> a babel source block (e.g. plot the data). Searches in the manual, >> worg, and gmane have not yielded the method, but my best guess is that >> I've missed it. If so, this is simply a request for a pointer to the >> documentation I should read. > > Any luck with this, Tim? I'm trying to do something very similar. > One approach would be to use the org-collector [1] from contrib/ to collect properties into a table. That table could then be fed as the argument to a source code block. Hope this helps, Footnotes: [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/