On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Christopher W. Ryan
<cryan@binghamton.edu> wrote:
> I have a long cumulative org file that contains work related to a series
> of studies. Each first-level subtree (*) is a new study. I need to be
> able to export any given first-level tree on its own, with an output pdf
> file name different from the main org filename, and with a title perhaps
> different from the * headline. And I need to execute R code as it
> exports. I am running org-mode 7.7 on Windows XP
>
> A sample org file to illustrate the problem looks like this:
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
> * goodbye
>
> foo foo
>
> * Hello
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: TestMyBabelSetup
> :EXPORT_TITLE: foobar
> :EXPORT_AUTHOR: Christopher W. Ryan, MD MS
> :RESULTS: output
> :EXPORTS: both
> :END:
>
> foo
>
> #+begin_src R
> rnorm(3)
> #+end_src
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> When I export the whole file to pdf, everything works fine.
>
> But if I try to export just the * Hello tree, then I get an error:
>
>  Args out of range: "", -1, 0

I can't reproduce. =M-x org-version= is Org-mode version 7.9.3e
(7.9.3e-910-g33c4f6)

Can you try updating your orgmode version?

I attached the results of =C-c C-e 1 p= (export subtree) with the
cursor within the * Hello headline contents.


Best regards,
John

>
> If I remove anything relating to R and babel from the * Hello tree,
> leaving just this:
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> * goodbye
>
> foo foo
>
> * Hello
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: TestMyBabelSetup
> :EXPORT_TITLE: foobar
> :EXPORT_AUTHOR: Christopher W. Ryan, MD MS
> :END:
>
> foo
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> then exporting just the * Hello treee works as expected.
>
> I'm stumped. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Chris
> --
> Christopher W. Ryan, MD, MS
> SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
> 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY  13904
> cryanatbinghamtondotedu
>
> "Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or
> evil intent, we can liberate ourselves from the impossible burden of
> trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition
> that we could be in error, without deeming ourselves idiotic or
> unworthy." [Karen Schulz, in Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error]
>
>