Re: conditional export based on babel result

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

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?

All the best,
Tom

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
>
>
>

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