John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I don't believe this is possible out of the box. The first RESULTS block
> from the beginning of the buffer will be updated, and not the others.
>
> You might be able to use a hook function to do this, something like:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (defun update-results () (interactive)
>   ;; get name of src block
>   (let ((name (org-element-property :name (org-element-at-point)))
>         (results))
>     (when name
>       (org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer) 'fixed-width
>         (lambda (object)
>           (if results
>               ;; replace value in block
>               (setf
>                (buffer-substring
>                 (org-element-property :begin  object)
>                 (org-element-property :end  object))
>                results)
>             ;; set results
>             (setq results
>                   (buffer-substring
>                    (org-element-property :begin  object)
>                    (org-element-property :end  object)))))))))
> #+END_SRC
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (add-hook 'org-babel-after-execute-hook 'update-results)
> #+END_SRC
>
> This worked on a small test example, but I did not test it
> thoroughly. your mileage might vary ;)

This looks nice - I will try it out and see how it goes.


>
>
> Rainer M Krug writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Consider the following:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> * The calculation
>> #+NAME: testcode :exports both
>> #+begin_src R  :session test
>> runif(10)
>> #+end_src
>>
>>
>> * summary of the results
>> First time
>> #+RESULTS: testcode :exports both
>> |  0.772744940361008 |
>> |  0.170518629485741 |
>> | 0.0833237133920193 |
>> |  0.149035625392571 |
>> |  0.698798568220809 |
>> |  0.627075897762552 |
>> |  0.177144371205941 |
>> | 0.0476319056469947 |
>> |  0.289851602632552 |
>> | 0.0296813279855996 |
>>
>> * and another
>> testthingy
>> #+RESULTS: testcode :exports both
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> If I update the calculation, the first results block is updated, but
>> not the second one. I would like to have two RESULTS blocks which
>> are both updated when the code block is evaluated.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer
>
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