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From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
Subject: Re: Bug: R source block list export not working properly [7.8.11]
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:28:36 -1000
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In-Reply-To: <DDA639CB-6CA3-4350-A52D-5B768A919DEC@gmail.com> (Greg
	Tucker-Kellogg's message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:00:51 +0800")
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Greg Tucker-Kellogg <gtuckerkellogg@gmail.com> writes:

> I reported this on the mailing list as a question, but it appears to be an
> actual bug, so I thought I should file it formally.  The following MWE
> shows the problem when trying to export an R character vector:
>
> #+begin_src R :exports results :results value list
> c("x","y","z")
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> - ("x")
> - ("y")
> - ("z")
>
> This is clearly not what is wanted, more or less ever.  What works,
> instead, requires R manipulation of the results, of the form:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC R :exports results :results output raw
> a <- c("x","y","z")
> cat(paste("-", a), sep="\n")
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> - x
> - y
> - z
>
>
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
> of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org
> Package: Org-mode version 7.8.11

Hi Greg,

The problem is that no one is maintaining ob-r.el.  The author, Dan
Davison, has moved on to other things.

Eric Schulte will apply patches to ob-r.el.  Perhaps you could suggest a
patch that would fix this behavior?

All the best,
Tom

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