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* [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode
@ 2009-06-25 20:25 Eric Schulte
  2009-06-26  9:02 ` Taru Karttunen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eric Schulte @ 2009-06-25 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Org Mode; +Cc: Dan Davison

For the past couple of months I have been working on Org-Babel, with Dan
Davison and (initially) Austin Frank.  Through Org-Babel Org-Mode can
communicate with programming languages.  Code contained in source-code
blocks can be evaluated and data can pass seamlessly between different
programming languages, Org-Mode constructs (tables, file links, example
text) and interactive comint buffers. One part of the project is the
"Library of Babel", which will be an extensible collection of ready-made
and easily-shortcut-callable source-code blocks for handling common
tasks.

Org-Babel provides a unified backend for source-code evaluation from
Org-Mode and with the "Library of Babel" does/will...
- allow seamless passing of data between source-code blocks and other
  org-mode constructs (tables, file links, example text)
- allow chaining of source-code blocks in different languages
- allow calling of source-code blocks from tables
- support literate programming (org-babel-tangle)
- enable reproducible research (multilingual Sweave-like functionality,
  i.e. plots and analysis results united with the code to generate them)
- replace org-exp-blocks enabling interactive evaluation of blocks
- replace org-plot
- replace org-R

We have been intending to share this with the list once development
stabilized, however this has proven to be a moving target as ideas for
new development have continually arisen faster than they have been
implemented.  Given the many recent related threads on list we've
decided now is a good time for an initial beta release and
development/feedback solicitation.

Please find the code at [1] or clone it from [2].  In the base directory
of the repo you will find org-babel.org, a monolithic file which
contains more information than you could ever want to know about the
functionality and development of Org-Babel.  If anyone wants to help
please send patches to Dan or myself, or contact me for commit access to
the repo.

Thanks and Enjoy,
Eric Schulte and Dan Davison

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://github.com/eschulte/org-babel/tree/master

[2]  git://github.com/eschulte/org-babel.git

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• * Re: [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode
    2009-06-25 20:25 [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode Eric Schulte
  @ 2009-06-26  9:02 ` Taru Karttunen
    2009-06-26 14:43   ` Dan Davison
    0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
  From: Taru Karttunen @ 2009-06-26  9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: emacs-orgmode
  
  Excerpts from Eric Schulte's message of Thu Jun 25 23:25:30 +0300 2009:
  > For the past couple of months I have been working on Org-Babel, with Dan
  > Davison and (initially) Austin Frank.  Through Org-Babel Org-Mode can
  > communicate with programming languages.  Code contained in source-code
  > blocks can be evaluated and data can pass seamlessly between different
  > programming languages, Org-Mode constructs (tables, file links, example
  > text) and interactive comint buffers. One part of the project is the
  > "Library of Babel", which will be an extensible collection of ready-made
  > and easily-shortcut-callable source-code blocks for handling common
  > tasks.
  
  How do I try it out?
  
  I tried the following:
  1) update org-mode to latest git
  2) restart emacs and open org-babel.org
  3) add the load path and (require 'org-babel)
  4) press C-cC-c on a begin_src line
  it only says "Local setup has been refreshed" and nothing happens.
  
  ps. org-babel seems very nifty from reading things
  
  - Taru Karttunen
  
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• • * Re: [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode
      2009-06-26  9:02 ` Taru Karttunen
    @ 2009-06-26 14:43   ` Dan Davison
      2009-06-26 16:05     ` Sebastian Rose
      0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
    From: Dan Davison @ 2009-06-26 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Taru Karttunen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
    
    Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net> writes:
    
    > Excerpts from Eric Schulte's message of Thu Jun 25 23:25:30 +0300 2009:
    >> For the past couple of months I have been working on Org-Babel, with Dan
    >> Davison and (initially) Austin Frank.  Through Org-Babel Org-Mode can
    >> communicate with programming languages.  Code contained in source-code
    >> blocks can be evaluated and data can pass seamlessly between different
    >> programming languages, Org-Mode constructs (tables, file links, example
    >> text) and interactive comint buffers. One part of the project is the
    >> "Library of Babel", which will be an extensible collection of ready-made
    >> and easily-shortcut-callable source-code blocks for handling common
    >> tasks.
    >
    > How do I try it out?
    
    Hi Taru and other potential org-babel collaborators,
    
    org-babel-init.el is what you need, so:
    
    (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/org-babel/lisp")
    (require 'org-babel-init)
    
    After that, good starting points to see in action some of the
    functionality that Eric has implemented are the `Sandbox' section of
    org-babel.org, and the large table in the `Tests' section. C-c C-c
    anywhere in a source code block in the Sandbox should execute that
    block. In the Tests section, C-u C-c C-c in the table runs a suite of
    tests of org-babel functionality, updating the table with the results of
    code evaluation in several languages, and flagging up failed tests (more
    fun if you clear out the `results' and `pass' column first).
    
    Dan
    
    >
    > I tried the following:
    > 1) update org-mode to latest git
    > 2) restart emacs and open org-babel.org
    > 3) add the load path and (require 'org-babel)
    > 4) press C-cC-c on a begin_src line
    > it only says "Local setup has been refreshed" and nothing happens.
    >
    > ps. org-babel seems very nifty from reading things
    >
    > - Taru Karttunen
    >
    >
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  • • * Re: [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode
        2009-06-26 14:43   ` Dan Davison
      @ 2009-06-26 16:05     ` Sebastian Rose
        2009-06-26 17:12       ` Eric Schulte
        0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
      From: Sebastian Rose @ 2009-06-26 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
        To: Dan Davison; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
      
      Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
      > org-babel-init.el is what you need, so:
      >
      > (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/org-babel/lisp")
      > (require 'org-babel-init)
      
      
      and get:
      
      
      Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "inf-ruby")
        require(inf-ruby)
        eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil "/home/sebastian/emacs/lisp/ext/org-babel/lisp/langs/org-babel-ruby.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 1098
        load-with-code-conversion("/home/sebastian/emacs/lisp/ext/org-babel/lisp/langs/org-babel-ruby.el" "/home/sebastian/emacs/lisp/ext/org-babel/lisp/langs/org-babel-ruby.el" nil t)
        require(org-babel-ruby)
        eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/sebastian/emacs/lisp/ext/org-babel/lisp/org-babel-init.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 1393
        load-with-code-conversion("/home/sebastian/emacs/lisp/ext/org-babel/lisp/org-babel-init.el" "/home/sebastian/emacs/lisp/ext/org-babel/lisp/org-babel-init.el" nil t)
        require(org-babel-init)
        eval((require (quote org-babel-init)))
        eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
        eval-last-sexp(nil)
        call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
      
      
      file inf-ruby.el does not exist.
      
      Where should it go, and what should it contain?
      
      
      Looks sooo interesting, I need to know!! :)
      
      
         Sebastian
      
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    • • * Re: [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode
          2009-06-26 16:05     ` Sebastian Rose
        @ 2009-06-26 17:12       ` Eric Schulte
          2009-06-26 17:37         ` Sebastian Rose
          0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
        From: Eric Schulte @ 2009-06-26 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
          To: Sebastian Rose; +Cc: Dan Davison, emacs-orgmode
        
        Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
        
        [...]
        
        > file inf-ruby.el does not exist.
        >
        > Where should it go, and what should it contain?
        >
        
        inf-ruby.el is located in the util directory, however we were loading
        files in the wrong order in the initialization file so it wasn't loaded
        in time.  I just switched around the load order and committed, so please
        pull the latest from git and git it another try.
        
        Thanks -- Eric
        
        >
        > Looks sooo interesting, I need to know!! :)
        >
        >
        >    Sebastian
        >
        >
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      • • * Re: [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode
            2009-06-26 17:12       ` Eric Schulte
          @ 2009-06-26 17:37         ` Sebastian Rose
            0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
          From: Sebastian Rose @ 2009-06-26 17:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
            To: Eric Schulte; +Cc: Dan Davison, emacs-orgmode
          
          "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
          > Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
          >
          > [...]
          >
          >> file inf-ruby.el does not exist.
          >>
          >> Where should it go, and what should it contain?
          >>
          >
          > inf-ruby.el is located in the util directory, however we were loading
          > files in the wrong order in the initialization file so it wasn't loaded
          > in time.  I just switched around the load order and committed, so please
          > pull the latest from git and git it another try.
          
          
          Hey - that was it! Great, thanks Eric!
          
          
            Sebastian
          
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