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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Matthew Oesting <oestingm@me.com>
Subject: Re: Possible Calc support for Org-Babel?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:16:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc5wvxbm.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lj1188pe.fsf@gmail.com

"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

[...]

>>
>> Further on this, any suggestions on how to pass a vector variable to
>> calc using babel?  I tried
>>
>> #+begin-src org
>>   #+begin_src calc :var y=[1 2 3]
>> 3 y
>>   #+end_src
>> #+end_src
>>
>> but get an error that says
>>
>> : Bad format in variable contents: Expected a number
>>
>> I've tried putting the vector in quotes but that doesn't help either.
>> Is this maybe not possible?
>>
>
> With the newest version of Org-mode, I'm now getting the following
> output.
>
> #+begin_src calc :var y=[1 2 3]
>   3 y
> #+end_src
> #+results:
> : (3, 6)
>
> Does this look correct?
>
> Best -- Eric

This does not look correct: assuming my knowledge of calc is correct,
the result should be the scalar 3 multiplied by each of the vector
elements.  I don't understand how =(3, 6)= can be the output of =3 y=...

The strange thing is that this doesn't work at all for me (with git as
of a few minutes ago): I still get the error message

: byte-code: Bad format in variable contents: Expected a number

However, if I put the vector in double quotes, it works:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  #+begin_src calc :var y="[1 2 3]"
3 y
  #+end_src

  #+results:
  : [3, 6, 9]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

*but* if I subsequently remove the double quotes, it doesn't work and if
put them back, it no longer works either.  I am confused...  there's
like a hysteresis loop in org babel :(

Any suggestions on how to debug this are welcome, of course.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.553.g83b7.dirty)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-03 22:42 Possible Calc support for Org-Babel? Eric S Fraga
2010-11-04 13:24 ` Eric Schulte
2010-11-04 14:13   ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-04 14:42   ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-04 15:33     ` Eric Schulte
2010-11-04 16:02       ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-04 16:23         ` Eric Schulte
2011-01-27  0:39   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-02-23  4:35     ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-24 10:13       ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-27 21:32         ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-28 18:16           ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-03-01 17:34             ` Eric Schulte
2011-03-01 20:10               ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-07  9:16               ` Eric S Fraga
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-01 20:48 orgmode
2010-10-22 17:17 Matthew Oesting
2010-10-26 18:37 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29  6:42   ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29  7:13     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-29 11:14     ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 14:43       ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 16:22         ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 19:53         ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 20:26           ` Eric Schulte
     [not found]             ` <87hbg4pooh.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
     [not found]               ` <871v7879x5.fsf@gmail.com>
2010-10-30 20:54                 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-03 20:10                   ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 11:27     ` Sébastien Vauban

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