org-mode/lisp/ob-table.el

;;; ob-table.el --- support for calling org-babel functions from tables

;; Copyright (C) 2009-2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Eric Schulte
;; Keywords: literate programming, reproducible research
;; Homepage: http://orgmode.org

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;;; Commentary:

;; Should allow calling functions from org-mode tables using the
;; function `sbe' as so...

;; #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
;;   (defun fibbd (n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fibbd (- n 1)) (fibbd (- n 2)))))
;; #+end_src

;; #+name: fibbd
;; #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var n=2 :results silent
;; (fibbd n)
;; #+end_src

;; | original | fibbd  |
;; |----------+--------|
;; |        0 |        |
;; |        1 |        |
;; |        2 |        |
;; |        3 |        |
;; |        4 |        |
;; |        5 |        |
;; |        6 |        |
;; |        7 |        |
;; |        8 |        |
;; |        9 |        |
;; #+TBLFM: $2='(sbe 'fibbd (n $1))

;;; Code:
(require 'ob)

(defun org-babel-table-truncate-at-newline (string)
  "Replace newline character with ellipses.
If STRING ends in a newline character, then remove the newline
character and replace it with ellipses."
  (if (and (stringp string) (string-match "[\n\r]\\(.\\)?" string))
      (concat (substring string 0 (match-beginning 0))
	      (if (match-string 1 string) "...")) string))

(defmacro sbe (source-block &rest variables)
  "Return the results of calling SOURCE-BLOCK with VARIABLES.
Each element of VARIABLES should be a two
element list, whose first element is the name of the variable and
second element is a string of its value.  The following call to
`sbe' would be equivalent to the following source code block.

 (sbe 'source-block (n $2) (m 3))

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var results=source-block(n=val_at_col_2, m=3) :results silent
results
#+end_src

NOTE: by default string variable names are interpreted as
references to source-code blocks, to force interpretation of a
cell's value as a string, prefix the identifier with two \"$\"s
rather than a single \"$\" (i.e. \"$$2\" instead of \"$2\" in the
example above.

NOTE: it is also possible to pass header arguments to the code
block.  In this case a table cell should hold the string value of
the header argument which can then be passed before all variables
as shown in the example below.

| 1 | 2 | :file nothing.png | nothing.png |
#+TBLFM: @1$4='(sbe test-sbe $3 (x $1) (y $2))"
  (let* ((header-args (if (stringp (car variables)) (car variables) ""))
	 (variables (if (stringp (car variables)) (cdr variables) variables)))
    (let* (quote
	   (variables
	    (mapcar
	     (lambda (var)
	       ;; ensure that all cells prefixed with $'s are strings
	       (cons (car var)
		     (delq nil (mapcar
				(lambda (el)
				  (if (eq '$ el)
				      (setq quote t)
				    (prog1 (if quote
					       (format "\"%s\"" el)
					     (org-babel-clean-text-properties el))
				      (setq quote nil))))
				(cdr var)))))
	     variables)))
      (unless (stringp source-block)
	(setq source-block (symbol-name source-block)))
      ((lambda (result)
	 (org-babel-trim (if (stringp result) result (format "%S" result))))
       (if (and source-block (> (length source-block) 0))
	   (let ((params
		  (eval `(org-babel-parse-header-arguments
			  (concat
			   ":var results="
			   ,source-block
			   "[" ,header-args "]"
			   "("
			   (mapconcat
			    (lambda (var-spec)
			      (if (> (length (cdr var-spec)) 1)
				  (format "%S='%S"
					  (car var-spec)
					  (mapcar #'read (cdr var-spec)))
				(format "%S=%s"
					(car var-spec) (cadr var-spec))))
			    ',variables ", ")
			   ")")))))
	     (org-babel-execute-src-block
	      nil (list "emacs-lisp" "results" params)
	      '((:results . "silent"))))
	 "")))))
(def-edebug-spec sbe (form form))

(provide 'ob-table)



;;; ob-table.el ends here