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14.7 Languages

Code blocks in the following languages are supported.

Language	Identifier	Language	Identifier
Asymptote	asymptote	C	C
C++	C++	Clojure	clojure
CSS	css	ditaa	ditaa
Graphviz	dot	Emacs Lisp	emacs-lisp
gnuplot	gnuplot	Haskell	haskell
LaTeX	latex	MATLAB	matlab
Mscgen	mscgen	Objective Caml	ocaml
Octave	octave	Oz	oz
Perl	perl	Python	python
R	R	Ruby	ruby
Sass	sass	GNU Screen	screen
shell	sh	SQL	sql
SQLite	sqlite

Language-specific documentation is available for some languages. If available, it can be found at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.

The org-babel-load-languages controls which languages are enabled for evaluation (by default only emacs-lisp is enabled). This variable can be set using the customization interface or by adding code like the following to your emacs configuration.

The following disables emacs-lisp evaluation and enables evaluation of R code blocks.

     (org-babel-do-load-languages
      'org-babel-load-languages
      '((emacs-lisp . nil)
        (R . t)))

It is also possible to enable support for a language by loading the related elisp file with require.

The following adds support for evaluating clojure code blocks.

     (require 'ob-clojure)