From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] [babel] [R] :colnames yes conflicts with :results file
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:19:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24ms33q41.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wq4z6gqp.fsf@tsdye.com> (Thomas S. Dye's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:01:02 -1000")
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tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
> Aloha Rainer,
>
> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> I don't think this is a bug as it is not clear what should happen.
>> In the org manual it states concerning the :results file
>>
>> ,----
>> | * `file' The results will be interpreted as the path to a file, and
>> | will be inserted into the Org mode buffer as a file link. E.g.,
>> | `:results value file'.
>> `----
>>
>> But the :colnames only works on tables (i.e. :results table) - but the
>> result is represented as a link to a file. So what should happen?
>
> I think this is mistaken. "Tables" occur in at least three contexts in
> babel source code blocks. There are input tables, :var mytable, there
> are "tables" within the code block, represented in R as a dataframe or a
> matrix, and there are output tables, which are placed in the Org mode
> buffer as a result.
Agreed - I was only thinking of the R -> org path.
>
> I use :colnames to keep the column names of input tables associated with
> the "tables" within the code block, and typically have them represented
> in the output, whether that is a "table" written to file, or output to
> the Org mode buffer as an Org mode table, either by default or (more
> rarely) through use of :results table.
>
> In my experience :results table is mostly useful for coercing a value
> that babel would otherwise interpret as a scalar into a single element
> table.
Well - if the result is an R data.frame, it would not make a difference
if I use :results table or not - correct?
>
>> If you would like to have a table with links to files, the easiest is to
>> put the file names into [[]] in R and then return them in a table - or
>> use :results output and "draw" the table.
>>
>> But as it stands, these two header arguments do not go together.
>
> Which two header arguments? :results table file is contradictory, but
> :colnames yes :results file is not, or should not be, IMHO.
Yup - ~:colnames yes :results file~ as well as
~:colnames yes :results table~ are not
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> All the best,
> Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-07 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-06 12:40 [BUG] [babel] [R] :colnames yes conflicts with :results file Andreas Leha
2015-01-06 13:49 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-01-06 15:39 ` Andreas Leha
2015-01-06 17:50 ` Aaron Ecay
2015-01-07 9:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-01-06 16:01 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-01-07 9:19 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2015-01-07 17:14 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-01-07 9:33 ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-01-07 13:45 ` Rainer M Krug
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