Can you pass \ref{fig:image} in? I think that is what you would do in Latex.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:00 PM shripad sinari <shripad.sin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > I would like to know if there is a way to pass a reference for a figure to > a source block as in the following example: > > ----x-----------x--- > > * Section name > > some text > #+CAPTION: Fig Caption > #+NAME: fig:image > [[file:img.jpg]] > some reference to figure [[fig:image]] > > * other section > reference to Section [[Section name]] > > #+BEGIN_SRC R :session *sample* default :exports results :results output > latex :tangle yes :var plot=[[fig:image]] > library(xtable) > print(xtable(BOD > , caption = paste("Link the image", plot,"to this table"))) > #+END_SRC > > > ----x-----------x--- > > I would like the caption of the table to point to the image, at the point > where the word "plot" is located, in LaTeX export of the org file. > > Any help or other workarounds are appreciated. I am using org version > 9.0.3 in GNU Emacs 24.5.1. > > Thanks for your help and regards, > > Shripad > Tucson, AZ > > > > >