Thanks John. I was a little nervous about upgrading org version. I use Vince Goulet's version of emacs with ESS built-in, and he removed org-mode from his latest release (24.2.1)
http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/pub/emacs/NEWS-windows But I downloaded and installed the newer emacs anyway, and got org-mode version 7.9.3f from the org website, and that solved my problem. So far, so good . . . . --Chris Christopher W. Ryan, MD, MS SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 cryanatbinghamtondotedu "Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or evil intent, we can liberate ourselves from the impossible burden of trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition that we could be in error, without deeming ourselves idiotic or unworthy." [Karen Schulz, in Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error] John Hendy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Christopher W. Ryan > <cr...@binghamton.edu> wrote: >> I have a long cumulative org file that contains work related to a series >> of studies. Each first-level subtree (*) is a new study. I need to be >> able to export any given first-level tree on its own, with an output pdf >> file name different from the main org filename, and with a title perhaps >> different from the * headline. And I need to execute R code as it >> exports. I am running org-mode 7.7 on Windows XP >> >> A sample org file to illustrate the problem looks like this: >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> >> * goodbye >> >> foo foo >> >> * Hello >> :PROPERTIES: >> :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: TestMyBabelSetup >> :EXPORT_TITLE: foobar >> :EXPORT_AUTHOR: Christopher W. Ryan, MD MS >> :RESULTS: output >> :EXPORTS: both >> :END: >> >> foo >> >> #+begin_src R >> rnorm(3) >> #+end_src >> >> >> -------------------------------------------- >> >> When I export the whole file to pdf, everything works fine. >> >> But if I try to export just the * Hello tree, then I get an error: >> >> Args out of range: "", -1, 0 > > I can't reproduce. =M-x org-version= is Org-mode version 7.9.3e > (7.9.3e-910-g33c4f6) > > Can you try updating your orgmode version? > > I attached the results of =C-c C-e 1 p= (export subtree) with the > cursor within the * Hello headline contents. > > > Best regards, > John > >> >> If I remove anything relating to R and babel from the * Hello tree, >> leaving just this: >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> * goodbye >> >> foo foo >> >> * Hello >> :PROPERTIES: >> :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: TestMyBabelSetup >> :EXPORT_TITLE: foobar >> :EXPORT_AUTHOR: Christopher W. Ryan, MD MS >> :END: >> >> foo >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> then exporting just the * Hello treee works as expected. >> >> I'm stumped. What am I doing wrong? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --Chris >> -- >> Christopher W. Ryan, MD, MS >> SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton >> 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 >> cryanatbinghamtondotedu >>
