Hi Eric

I traced the problem to the following section in my emacs.org file:

* Syntax highlighting for functions in R
  based on https://mail.google.com/mail/#label/Lists%2FESS/125131ed24688970
  The following code needs to be run in R:
 
  obj <- do.call("c", sapply(c("package:base", "package:stats",
  "package:utils"), objects, all.names=TRUE))
  re <- "(^[^.[:alpha:][:digit:]]|<-|__)"  # to remove "weird" functions
  obj <- obj[-grep(re, obj)]
  fpath <- file.path(Sys.getenv("HOME"), ".emacs.d", "R-function-names.txt")
  write.table(obj, fpath, quote=FALSE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE)
 
  Read a whole file into list of lines
  Author: Xah Lee
  see http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_process_lines.html
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (defun read-lines (file)
  "Return a list of lines in FILE."
  (with-temp-buffer
  (insert-file-contents file)
  (split-string
  (buffer-string) "\n" t)
  )
  )

  (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
  '(lambda()
  (setq ess-my-extra-R-function-keywords
  (read-lines "~/.emacs.d/R-function-names.txt"))
  (setq ess-R-mode-font-lock-keywords
  (append ess-R-mode-font-lock-keywords
  (list (cons (concat "\\<" (regexp-opt
  ess-my-extra-R-function-keywords 'enc-paren) "\\>")
  'font-lock-function-name-face))))))

If I disable that section, it works. Do you have any ideas if it could be changes? I don't know anything about emacs-lisp.

Thanks,

Rainer

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rainer,

Hi Eric,
 

Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> I am trying to export the attached test.org file to HTML, but I can only
> export it, when I change the source block language to anything different
> from R.
>
> I also attach my emacs.org file, but I am not doing any customisations to R.
>

I've just started up a minimal Emacs instance and loaded the babel
portion of your attached config, but I am able to export your attached
org file w/o error.  A couple of questions.

1) are you able to export to latex?  If so, then maybe the issue has to
  do with fontification of R code by htmlize-buffer

Yes - export to latex (and from there to pdf) are working.

2) could you send in the actual error being reported by Emacs, or a
  stack trace?
These are the messages in emacs:
 
Select command:
Exporting...
org-babel-exp processing...
Fontifying  *temp*... (regexps.............)
org-babel-exp processing...
font-lock-fontify-keywords-region: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big"

How can I get a stack trace?

One more thing: if I start emacs with the -Q option, it works. So I assume it is something in my emacs.org file. What is the easiest way to avoid that source blocks under a heading in the emacs.org file are executed?


>
> In addition: if I specify :session *R* in #:BABEL: , the code is
> evaluated, even though I specified :exports code. Is this intended?
>

Yes, this is for Sweave like behavior.

If you have a session specified for every block in the buffer, and you
are exporting the buffer, there are cases when you need a block to be
executed (e.g. because it sets the value of a variable used by a
subsequent block) even though you *do not* want the results of the block
included in the final document.  To support these use cases, on export
every block with a session is executed so that it's effects on the
persist session takes place.

OK - that makes sense.
If you need any further info, please let me know.

Thanks,

Rainer

Cheers -- Eric

>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer



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