# Org mode: Babel

Date: 2020-04-17 21:41:30 +08:00Date modified: 2021-07-17 19:03:50 +08:00

Babel is the framework that enables Org mode to be a Reproducible research tool. It is comparable to Jupyter and R Markdown that other computational scientists use it.

Among other features, it can do the following.

- Prints the results from code blocks.

- Create files from a single document, making it possible to create entire computational reports.

- Pass values from one code block to another, even with different programming languages.

- Create graphics similarly to Jupyter and R Markdown notebooks.

- Call code blocks either inline, as a block, or inside of another code block, thereby enabling metaprogramming and dynamic contents.

The unfortunate thing is most of these features are only available when using with GNU Emacs.

For more details, you can see The basics of org-babel.

## Backlinks

- Org mode
- GNU Emacs
- The basics of org-babel