Hi, -- this was only tested with the git version I was trying to export a table as a variable to R via babel evaluation. However it seems that is the rows are empty , the exported table ends at the last non-empty value. For example,the second row of tbl-issue defined below ends with 2 columns [8,9]. The next table however works ok. I've narrowed down the cause to the orgtbl-to-tsv function as highlighted below. #+NAME: tbl-issue | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | | 8 | 9 | | | | | #+BEGIN_SRC R :session *R* :var df2=tbl-issue :results value ## won't work print(df2) #+END_SRC (orgtbl-to-tsv '( (1 2 #1="" #1# #1# #1# ) ) '(:fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field)) -> "\"1\"\"2\"" #+NAME: tlb-ok | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | | 8 | 9 | | | | 10 | #+BEGIN_SRC R :session *R* :var df2=tbl-ok :results value # work ok print(df2) #+END_SRC (orgtbl-to-tsv '( (1 2 #1="" #1# #1# #1# 10) ) '(:fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field)) -> "\"1\"\"2\"\"1\"" Emacs 24.5 with Org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-1286-g20795f.dirty ) Regards, lompik