Re: [O] [PATCH] -for review- Tangling with variable transfer of variables

[Rainer M Krug]

Aaron Ecay <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Rainer,
>
> I have not tested the patch (I rarely use :var), but here are some
> comments from reading the patch.
>
> 2014ko ekainak 19an, Rainer M Krug-ek idatzi zuen:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> This patch should fix the problem of tangling with variable transfer of
>> tables. It uses a textConection() instead of a file to transfer the
>> table. This results in variable transfer of variables in R, without
>> having to include additional files.
>> 
>> Hope this does not work only for me.
>> 
>> From f77e982e17909f2098974356c304bd29db04da79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: "Rainer M. Krug" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:03:46 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] lisp/ob-R.el: Fix tangling with tables
>> 
>> * lisp/ob-R.el (org-babel-R-assign-elisp): Fix variable transfer of
>>   tables by using text connections in R instead of files. Variable
>>   transfer of tables does not depend on files anymore, i.e. works also
>>   when tangling.
>
> The changelog comment should not be indented on the subsequent lines.
> I believe the standard is also to double-space after sentence-ending
> periods.

OK - I'll fix this.

>
>> ---
>>  lisp/ob-R.el | 13 ++++---------
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/lisp/ob-R.el b/lisp/ob-R.el
>> index a3ae1ec..88f65f3 100644
>> --- a/lisp/ob-R.el
>> +++ b/lisp/ob-R.el
>> @@ -190,25 +190,20 @@ This function is called by 
>> `org-babel-execute-src-block'."
>>    (if (listp value)
>>        (let* ((lengths (mapcar 'length (org-remove-if-not 'sequencep value)))
>>           (max (if lengths (apply 'max lengths) 0))
>> -         (min (if lengths (apply 'min lengths) 0))
>> -         (transition-file (org-babel-temp-file "R-import-")))
>> +         (min (if lengths (apply 'min lengths) 0)))
>>          ;; Ensure VALUE has an orgtbl structure (depth of at least 2).
>>          (unless (listp (car value)) (setq value (list value)))
>> -        (with-temp-file transition-file
>> -          (insert
>> -       (orgtbl-to-tsv value '(:fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field))
>> -       "\n"))
>> -    (let ((file (org-babel-process-file-name transition-file 'noquote))
>> +    (let ((file (orgtbl-to-tsv value '(:fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field)))
>
> As a cosmetic issue, you might want to pick a different name for this
> variable now that it no longer holds a file name.

Well - I thought about it, but it holds the value which is passed to the
argument "file" so I left it as it is to make this clear.

>
>>            (header (if (or (eq (nth 1 value) 'hline) colnames-p)
>>                        "TRUE" "FALSE"))
>>            (row-names (if rownames-p "1" "NULL")))
>>        (if (= max min)
>> -          (format "%s <- read.table(\"%s\",
>> +          (format "%s <- read.table(textConnection('%s'),
>
> This will fail if ‘file’ contains an apostrophe character.  I guess you
> need to escape apostrophes in ‘file’.

True - I did not think to much into the escaping issue. 

Thanks,  

Rainer

>
> HTH,

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