From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Possible Calc support for Org-Babel? Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:16:45 +0000 Message-ID: <87oc5wvxbm.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <878w1ani4w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87eib1dxll.fsf@gmail.com> <87hbcvnpr4.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87zkpn8j10.fsf@gmail.com> <87fwrdoi43.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87lj1188pe.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34581 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pu7ez-0004aM-Jz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:17:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu7eW-00061X-EV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:17:01 -0500 Received: from vscane-a2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.42]:49800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu7eW-00061L-7j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:17:00 -0500 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Matthew Oesting "Eric Schulte" writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: [...] >> >> Further on this, any suggestions on how to pass a vector variable to >> calc using babel? I tried >> >> #+begin-src org >> #+begin_src calc :var y=[1 2 3] >> 3 y >> #+end_src >> #+end_src >> >> but get an error that says >> >> : Bad format in variable contents: Expected a number >> >> I've tried putting the vector in quotes but that doesn't help either. >> Is this maybe not possible? >> > > With the newest version of Org-mode, I'm now getting the following > output. > > #+begin_src calc :var y=[1 2 3] > 3 y > #+end_src > #+results: > : (3, 6) > > Does this look correct? > > Best -- Eric This does not look correct: assuming my knowledge of calc is correct, the result should be the scalar 3 multiplied by each of the vector elements. I don't understand how =(3, 6)= can be the output of =3 y=... The strange thing is that this doesn't work at all for me (with git as of a few minutes ago): I still get the error message : byte-code: Bad format in variable contents: Expected a number However, if I put the vector in double quotes, it works: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+begin_src calc :var y="[1 2 3]" 3 y #+end_src #+results: : [3, 6, 9] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- *but* if I subsequently remove the double quotes, it doesn't work and if put them back, it no longer works either. I am confused... there's like a hysteresis loop in org babel :( Any suggestions on how to debug this are welcome, of course. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.553.g83b7.dirty)