From: Charles Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] [babel] read description lists as lists of lists
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:30:44 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140920T021414-269@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ha03qv19.fsf@gmail.com
Aaron Ecay <aaronecay <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> The attached patch makes babel read description lists as lists of the
> following format: (("term" "description") ...). The present default is
> to simply read in the text of each list item, yielding:
> ("term :: description" ...).
>
> Of course, it’s possible to interconvert between the two formats, but I
> think the greater structure of this proposal makes things easier for
> babel authors. (Another way of thinking of the proposal is that it
> treats description lists like two-column tables.)
>
> What do people think?
With that change
#+BEGIN_SRC R :var a=my-desc-list
a
#+END_SRC
returns a data.frame with one column of terms and one of descriptions!
Which, no doubt, is what you were thinking.
This will be handy for creating DESCRIPTION files for R packages.
I love it.
FWIW, rgrep-ing org-babel-\(ref-resolve\)\|\(read-result\) and clicking
on the links, I didn't catch any obvious problem cases.
HTH,
Chuck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-20 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 19:17 [RFC] [PATCH] [babel] read description lists as lists of lists Aaron Ecay
2014-09-20 0:30 ` Charles Berry [this message]
2014-09-20 11:52 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-23 4:02 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-24 19:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-24 22:49 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-26 9:03 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-28 5:55 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-28 10:49 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-28 22:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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