From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) Subject: Re: Babel: communicating irregular data to R source-code block Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:52:55 -1000 Message-ID: References: <1335039472.9075.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <87ipgrn4by.fsf@gmx.com> <1335219898.41851.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <87aa22t5vn.fsf@gmx.com> <1335251229.83988.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNC1B-00074H-SE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:53:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNC19-000425-QW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:53:05 -0400 Received: from oproxy6-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:59919) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNC19-00041O-HA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:53:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1335251229.83988.YahooMailNeo@web161905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (Michael Hannon's message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:07:09 -0700 (PDT)") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Michael Hannon Cc: Org-Mode List , Eric Schulte Michael Hannon writes: > On Monday, April 23, 2012 at 11:44 PM Thomas S. Dye wrote: > . > . > . >> The documentation of read.table has this: > >> The number of data columns is determined by looking at the first five li= nes >> of input (or the whole file if it has less than five lines), or from the >> length of col.names if it is specified and is longer. This could conceiv= ably >> be wrong if fill or blank.lines.skip are true, so specify col.names if >> necessary (as in the =E2=80=98Examples=E2=80=99). > >> The example is this: > >> read.csv(tf, fill =3D TRUE, header =3D FALSE, >>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 col.names =3D paste("V",= seq_len(ncol), sep =3D "")) > >> where read.csv is a synonym of read.table with preset arguments. > >> This explains why the sixth line wraps. > . > . > . > > Thanks, Tom.=C2=A0 I had just run across this myself. I guess I need to w= alk a mile > in somebody's moccasins before complaining, but this behavior on the part= of R > seems totally stupid to me. > > I'm going to have to mull this over some more. > > -- Mike > > Aloha Mike, Eric Schulte has pushed up some patches designed to make R source block variables accept irregular data. So, with pascals-triangle(8), for instance, one gets a potentially useful dataframe in R: #+NAME: sanity-check #+HEADER: :var sc_input=3Dpascals-triangle #+BEGIN_SRC R sc_input #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: sanity-check | 1 | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | | 1 | 1 | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | | 1 | 2 | 1 | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | nil | nil | nil | nil | nil | | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | nil | nil | nil | nil | | 1 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | nil | nil | nil | | 1 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 1 | nil | nil | | 1 | 7 | 21 | 35 | 35 | 21 | 7 | 1 | nil | | 1 | 8 | 28 | 56 | 70 | 56 | 28 | 8 | 1 | Could you pull the development version of Org mode and see if this solves your problem? All the best, Tom =20 --=20 Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com