According to the manual :no-expand is only supposed to have an effect during tangling, not execution.
Best, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> writes: > Hi > > shouldn't the following not give an error from R as it should not be > expanding the variables? > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > #+PROPERTY: no-expand TRUE > #+PROPERTY: var YEAR=2014 > > * a noexpand code > > #+begin_src R :results output :no-expand > cat(YEAR) > #+end_src > > #+RESULTS: > : 2014 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > The manual states: > > ,---- > | 14.8.2.11 `:no-expand' > | ...................... > | > | By default, code blocks are expanded with `org-babel-expand-src-block' > | during tangling. This has the effect of assigning values to variables > | specified with `:var' (see *Note var::), and of replacing "noweb" > | references (see *Note Noweb reference syntax::) with their targets. The > | `:no-expand' header argument can be used to turn off this behavior. > `---- > > Org-mode version 8.2.5h (release_8.2.5h-869-gdcfe09 @ > /Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp/) > > Cheers, > > Rainer -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D