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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: R terminal output does not match src block output due to ">" character in results
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:42:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft-AmM8+d-pOW6-+N19QmCm790Lbqbgkh4w3fvRJMMhFGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I just ran into an issue where results look fine in the terminal, but
not in the results of a source block. I can't share the real example
as it's work confidential, but a couple of rows across 7 columns looks
like this in the terminal:

#+begin_example terminal
dbGetQuery(con, paste0("SELECT TOP 2 * FROM table"))
1       <NA>             NA            NA <NA>         FALSE      0          5
2       <NA>             NA            NA <NA>         FALSE      0          5
#+end_example

When I use this with :exports results :results output drawer in my
document, I get:
#+begin_example src
1       <
            NA            NA <
        FALSE      0          5
2       <
            NA            NA <
        FALSE      0          5
#+end_example

I had an entirely separate email written and about to send, when it
dawned on me that the > character is the same as the R terminal prompt
and might be the cause.

My first attempt to reproduce was unsuccessful:

#+begin_src R :session :exports results :results output drawer
df <- data.frame(
  x = letters[1:3],
  y = c(1, 2, NA),
  z = c("x", NA,"z"))
df
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
:results:
  x  y    z
1 a  1    x
2 b  2 <NA>
3 c NA    z
:end:

I'm not sure if it's about more columns or more rows, but this does the trick:

#+begin_src R :session :exports results :results output drawer
df <- data.frame(
  x = letters[1:7],
  y = c(1, 2, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA),
  z = c("x", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "z"),
  a = c(1, rep(NA, 6)))
df
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
:results:
  x  y    z  a
1 a  1    x  1
2 b  2 <
NA
3 c NA <
NA
### ... shortened
:end:

If you comment out the line with z=, it works again... but that's the
column with all the <NA> values. Then again, if you end the data.frame
at z and don't add column a, it *also* works despite the presence of
many <NA> values.

#+RESULTS:
:results:
  x  y    z
1 a  1    x
2 b  2 <NA>
3 c NA <NA>
### ... shortened
:end:

I'm imagining there's a... "parser?" somewhere that typically strips
off the command prompt from the results perhaps (and recall some vague
memory of someone telling me this years ago on the list). Is there a
way to stop this from happening?

Would this line be responsible, or something else?
https://github.com/bzg/org-mode/blob/main/lisp/ob-R.el#L453


Many thanks,
John

next             reply	other threads:[~2022-01-11 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-11 22:42 John Hendy [this message]
2022-01-11 23:30 ` R terminal output does not match src block output due to ">" character in results John Hendy
2022-01-16 13:30   ` Jeremie Juste
2022-01-17  0:48     ` John Hendy
2022-01-24  4:49       ` Jack Kamm
2022-01-25 17:46         ` John Hendy

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