I was looking for an example of the export of R data frames into tables in html, and the example in ...
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.org ... did not work for me. I am running ... GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.4) of 2013-09-26 on trouble, modified by Debian Org-mode version 8.2.5c (release_8.2.5c @ /home/regcl/.emacs.d/lisp/org-mode/lisp/) Here is the problematic code ... ### START SNIP ###### START SNIP ###### START SNIP ### : #+BEGIN_SRC R :results output org : library(ascii) : a <- runif(100) : c <- "Quantiles of 100 random numbers" : b <- ascii(quantile(a),header=T,include.colnames=T,caption=c) : print(b,type="org") : rm(a,b,c) : #+END_SRC : : #+RESULTS: : #+BEGIN_ORG : #+CAPTION: Quantiles of 100 random numbers : | 0% | 25% | 50% | 75% | 100% | : |------+------+------+------+------| : | 0.03 | 0.28 | 0.52 | 0.74 | 1.00 | : #+END_ORG The output exported to HTML can be quite nice. #+RESULTS: #+BEGIN_ORG #+CAPTION: Quantiles of 100 random numbers | 0% | 25% | 50% | 75% | 100% | |------+------+------+------+------| | 0.03 | 0.28 | 0.52 | 0.74 | 1.00 | #+END_ORG ### END SNIP ###### END SNIP ###### END SNIP ### ... As you can see, this code is statically "rigged" to export in such a way that it looks like it is working with R. When I try to make the code live by removing the markup as shown below ... #+BEGIN_SRC R :results output org library(ascii) a <- runif(100) c <- "Quantiles of 100 random numbers" b <- ascii(quantile(a),header=T,include.colnames=T,caption=c) print(b,type="org") rm(a,b,c) #+END_SRC The html produced by ... C-c C-e h h ... contains the fontified source code, but no table. ... C-c C-c on the code block produces these results ... #+RESULTS: #+BEGIN_SRC org ,#+CAPTION: Quantiles of 100 random numbers | 0% | 25% | 50% | 75% | 100% | |------+------+------+------+------| | 0.02 | 0.30 | 0.49 | 0.70 | 0.99 | #+END_SRC By trial and error, I discovered that if I change the header arguments as shown below ... #+BEGIN_SRC R :results output raw :exports results library(ascii) a <- runif(100) c <- "Quantiles of 100 random numbers" b <- ascii(quantile(a),header=T,include.colnames=T,caption=c) print(b,type="org") rm(a,b,c) #+END_SRC ... this produces a table in HTML that matches the table produced by the static code. ... C-c C-c on this code block produces these results ... #+RESULTS: #+CAPTION: Quantiles of 100 random numbers | 0% | 25% | 50% | 75% | 100% | |------+------+------+------+------| | 0.03 | 0.25 | 0.57 | 0.79 | 0.99 | Can someone tell me if this is how it is supposed to work? If so, how do I go about submiting a patch to ... http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.org Thanks, regcl