Re: conditional export based on babel result

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> Perhaps you could generate the conditional parts of the document from
> source code blocks?  Pass in your test result and either export "" or
> #+begin_latex ... #+end_latex?
>

Hi Tom,

thanks for the suggestion.  I have indeed done that already but I will
avoid such things in the future.  It (a) feels wrong and (b) is ugly code
when I write (parts of) my document using print() and cat() functions.

Regards,
Andreas
 

>
> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there a possibility to exclude (or include) parts of the document
>> based on some babel source block result?
>>
>> First some use case:
>> Say, I am doing a statistical test.  And only if the test turns out to be
>> significant, a follow-up analysis is carried out.
>>
>> Is that possible?
>>
>> One thinkable and ugly option would be to allow lisp-generated tags like
>> in this dummy example:
>>
>> #+begin_org
>>
>> * The Test
>> #+name: sometest
>> #+begin_src R
>>   test_result <- 0.03
>> #+end_src
>>
>>
>> ** export maybe (if (< (string-to-number (sbe sometest)) 0.05)
>> ":export:" ":noexport:")
>> The follow-up
>>
>> #+end_org
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>