Re: [O] bug: orgtbl-to-tsv: premature end of table

[Charles C. Berry]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "Charles C. Berry" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Not a bug IMO.
>
> Notwithstanding the R issue, I think trimming the output of a radio
> table is a bit aggressive. We cannot know if trailing (and leading)
> spaces are significant in the output format the user defined.
>
> I removed the trimming part in commit
> bf37cd09b128b4431e1dd1a538fbcc4be3615042.
>
> Let me know if you disagree with that change.

I don't think the change broke anything that wasn't already broken.

And my diagnosis was wrong - I was confused by a problem that remains:

`org-babel-R-assign-elisp' is broken. Ragged rows in a table are filled 
with "" in each missing field; `org-table-to-lisp' returns a list of lists 
of common length.

`org-babel-R-assign-elisp' inspects that list to see if any element vary 
in length. But they do not, and therefore `max' and `min' in the let* 
varlist are equal and later on `ob-R-transfer-variable-table-with-header' 
is always used.

I think lom pik's example would not have failed had max and min differed 
as `ob-R-transfer-variable-table-without-header' would have been used 
instead.

R src blocks ought to render missing elements due to ragged rows in a 
table as NA, but this isnt the current behavior for this table:

#+NAME: tbl-ragged
| 1 | 2 | a |
| 8 | 9 |   |

It seems like the fix for this would be to prune any "" at the ends of 
lists in the value arg when beginning  `org-babel-R-assign-elisp'.

But I am tired, so I'll defer trying this till another time.

Best,

Chuck