perhaps what you want is a named session, see
http://orgmode.org/manual/session.html
On 28 May 2015 at 10:44, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I can start a session as follow:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_src R :session Test
> cat("Session Test\n")
> #+end_src
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Now I hava an R session named *Test*. But how can I closes this session?
> I thought about just quitting R
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_src R :session Test
> q(save = "no)
> #+end_src
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> but this does not return as ESS is waiting for the prompt (">").
>
> Is there a way of closing the session *Test* and close the buffer?
>
> My reasoning is that I want to do different longer analysis in one org
> file and start each in its own session, i.e. clean R. But as they
> involve several steps, I don't want to put them into one code block.
>
> So I have several code blocks which I want to execute in a "throw away
> session" which I would like to discard afterwards.
>
> So I am looking for something like
>
> #+CLOSE_SESSION Test
>
> which would then close the session *Test*
>
> Is something like this possible at the moment?
>
> Rainer
>
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