Re: [O] org babel problems with (org-babel-read "*R*")

[Eric Schulte]

Charles Berry <address@hidden> writes:

> Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag <at> biostat.ku.dk> writes:
>
>> 
>> 
>> after upgrading to the latest bleeding edge version I have problems
>> executing org-babel R blocks where the session is named *R*. the error
>> is this:
>> 
>> ELISP> (org-babel-read "*R*")
>> *** Eval error ***  Symbol's value as variable is void: *R*
>> 
>> did I miss any conventions or is this a bug?
>> 
>
> This commit
>
> http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit
> /?id=bde2348c9ecc87972d21a46a91d73ad3916650b8
>
> broke all my :session *R* headers.
>
> But :session "*R*" works.
>
> C-h f org-babel-read should mention *XYZ* is treated as lisp.
>
> Maybe (org-babel-read "\"*R*\"") works for you.
>
> Or I suppose you could hack this with (setq *R* "*R*")
>
> HTH,
>
>

I just pushed up a fix.  Sorry for the bug.

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Eric Schulte
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