Re: org-babel's treatment of NA in R source block

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

>> >
>> > I would like the NAs to be replaced by blank cells or by a less
>> > obstrusive character like a ".". Is there a simple way I could change
>> > this behaviour?
>> >
>> > Vikas
>> >
>> >
>> Aloha Vikas,
>> 
>> One route might be the ascii package in R, which exports objects to
>> several markup languages, including Org. The ascii() argument na.print
>> is a character string that specifies how NA should appear in the output.
>> 
>
> Thanks. That seems very good.
>
> But if the code block is directly producing org markup, what should I
> tell my parent org file to expect?
>
> My source block began like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC R :results value :colnames yes :hline yes
>
> I would expect this to change now. How do I say that the result is
> already formatted for org?
>
> Vikas
>
>
Does ":results value raw" do what you want?  Another possibility is
":results value org", which changed behavior recently.

All the best,
Tom
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