Re: Org babel R command session

[Ihor Radchenko]

Sam <sam@crawf.uk> writes:

> I just noticed an inconsistency between the way ob-R and ob-python
> select executables. For python, there are 3 variables:
> org-babel-python-command, org-babel-python-command-session and
> org-babel-python-command-nonsession, with the former overriding the
> latter two.

This was added because it is relatively common to use different commands
for session and non-session python blocks (things like ipython
vs. python).
  
> For R, there is only org-babel-R-command, which is ignored when running
> as a session.
> 
> Is it worth trying to make the R functionality as similar as possible to
> the python? If so then I'm happy to submit a patch doing just
> that. However, I'm not sure what is the best way to handle giving
> command-line arguments to the R interpreter when initialising a session,
> because you need to set inferior-ess-program to the executable
> specifically, and put any arguments in inferior-R-args.

The question is whether it is practically useful to have separate
commands for R session and R non-session blocks. For most interpreters,
it is not very useful - they use the same command.

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