Re: [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode

From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Beta Release / Development Invitation] Org-Babel --- code evaluation for reproducible-research and literate-programming in org-mode
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:43:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpoboy2h.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246005121-sup-403@oz.taruti.net> (Taru Karttunen's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:02:20 +0300")

Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net> writes:

> Excerpts from Eric Schulte's message of Thu Jun 25 23:25:30 +0300 2009:
>> For the past couple of months I have been working on Org-Babel, with Dan
>> Davison and (initially) Austin Frank.  Through Org-Babel Org-Mode can
>> communicate with programming languages.  Code contained in source-code
>> blocks can be evaluated and data can pass seamlessly between different
>> programming languages, Org-Mode constructs (tables, file links, example
>> text) and interactive comint buffers. One part of the project is the
>> "Library of Babel", which will be an extensible collection of ready-made
>> and easily-shortcut-callable source-code blocks for handling common
>> tasks.
>
> How do I try it out?

Hi Taru and other potential org-babel collaborators,

org-babel-init.el is what you need, so:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/org-babel/lisp")
(require 'org-babel-init)

After that, good starting points to see in action some of the
functionality that Eric has implemented are the `Sandbox' section of
org-babel.org, and the large table in the `Tests' section. C-c C-c
anywhere in a source code block in the Sandbox should execute that
block. In the Tests section, C-u C-c C-c in the table runs a suite of
tests of org-babel functionality, updating the table with the results of
code evaluation in several languages, and flagging up failed tests (more
fun if you clear out the `results' and `pass' column first).

Dan

>
> I tried the following:
> 1) update org-mode to latest git
> 2) restart emacs and open org-babel.org
> 3) add the load path and (require 'org-babel)
> 4) press C-cC-c on a begin_src line
> it only says "Local setup has been refreshed" and nothing happens.
>
> ps. org-babel seems very nifty from reading things
>
> - Taru Karttunen
>
>
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