Aaron Ecay <aaronecay <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> The attached patch makes babel read description lists as lists of the
> following format: (("term" "description") ...). The present default is
> to simply read in the text of each list item, yielding:
> ("term :: description" ...).
>
> Of course, it’s possible to interconvert between the two formats, but I
> think the greater structure of this proposal makes things easier for
> babel authors. (Another way of thinking of the proposal is that it
> treats description lists like two-column tables.)
>
> What do people think?
With that change
#+BEGIN_SRC R :var a=my-desc-list
a
#+END_SRC
returns a data.frame with one column of terms and one of descriptions!
Which, no doubt, is what you were thinking.
This will be handy for creating DESCRIPTION files for R packages.
I love it.
FWIW, rgrep-ing org-babel-\(ref-resolve\)\|\(read-result\) and clicking
on the links, I didn't catch any obvious problem cases.
HTH,
Chuck
