Meanwhile I learned that #+name: xvar : waterfall
#+name: myblock #+begin_src R :var xxx=xvar print(xxx) #+end_src #+RESULTS: myblock : waterfall ans so will #+name: xvar2 : water #+name: myblock2 #+begin_src R :var xxx=xvar2 xxx #+end_src #+RESULTS: myblock2 : water The critical missing piece for me was the colon in front of the value in a name definition. I wanted this because I am running a project on different machines, and I want to give the name od subdirectories through this mechanism. Ir seems cleaner than using code in a programming language when we just need constants. And I explained the problem seems to be that a value returned by R in a named block is not accessible as a named "variable". In this case, I would rather stay with R which I need anyhow and I have to explain to my coworkers. Using emacs-lisp additionally would just make things harder to understand fore some of the project members. This also works now #+name: rvar #+begin_src R "raha" #+end_src #+RESULTS: rvar : raha #+name: rvartest #+begin_src R :var xxx=rvar xxx #+end_src I had misunderstood something there.
