org-mode-mirror/litorgy/litorgy-table.el

;;; litorgy-table.el --- integration for calling litorgical functions from tables

;; Copyright (C) 2009 Eric Schulte

;; Author: Eric Schulte
;; Keywords: literate programming, reproducible research
;; Homepage: http://orgmode.org
;; Version: 0.01

;;; License:

;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;;
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;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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;;
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;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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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
;; 
;; #+srcname: 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 'litorgy)

(defmacro sbe (source-block &rest variables)
  "Return the results of calling SOURCE-BLOCK with all assigning
every variable in VARIABLES.  Each element of VARIABLES should be
a two element list, who's first element is the name of the
variable and second element is a string of it's 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=2, m=3) :results silent
results
#+end_src"
  (let ((params (eval `(litorgy-parse-header-arguments
                        (concat ":var results="
                                (symbol-name ,source-block)
                                "("
                                (mapconcat (lambda (var-spec)
                                             (format "%S=%s" (first var-spec) (second var-spec)))
                                           ',variables ", ")
                                ")")))))
    (litorgy-execute-src-block
     nil (list "emacs-lisp" "results" (org-combine-plists params '((:results . "silent")))))))

(provide 'litorgy-table)
;;; litorgy-table.el ends here