Re: [O] org babel problems with (org-babel-read "*R*")

[Charles Berry]

Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag <at> biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> 
> 
> after upgrading to the latest bleeding edge version I have problems
> executing org-babel R blocks where the session is named *R*. the error
> is this:
> 
> ELISP> (org-babel-read "*R*")
> *** Eval error ***  Symbol's value as variable is void: *R*
> 
> did I miss any conventions or is this a bug?
> 

This commit

http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit
/?id=bde2348c9ecc87972d21a46a91d73ad3916650b8

broke all my :session *R* headers.

But :session "*R*" works.

C-h f org-babel-read should mention *XYZ* is treated as lisp.

Maybe (org-babel-read "\"*R*\"") works for you.

Or I suppose you could hack this with (setq *R* "*R*")

HTH,