Re: graphing from org-tables

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: graphing from org-tables
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:18:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12BB0E4D-34D0-4BFE-A97C-0812BDE60211@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090128030609.GD6989@stats.ox.ac.uk>

Hi Dan,

I don't know anything about R, but this looks really interesting.
Whenever you are ready, I will distribute this with Org.

- Carsten

On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Dan Davison wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:53:37AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>
> < ... >
>
>>> (defun org-table-remote-range (id form
>>> 				  &optional replace keep-empty numbers lispp)
>>> "Get a field value or a list of values in a range from table at ID.
>>
>> In 6.19, there is now  built-in unction to access data from arbitrary
>> tables.
>>
>
> Thanks a lot for writing that function Carsten.
>
> I've used that code to extend org-table-R.el so that it can reference
> remote tables in org files, and also local csv files and csv files on
> the web.
>
> The interface with org-table-R is via #+TBLR lines. These can now
> occur anywhere in an org file (previously they had to be beneath the
> table being analysed), with a reference to a remote table containing
> the data. This reference can take the following forms (these are
> options to be supplied in the #+TBLR: line)
>
> 1. table:name -- The name of a table in the same file (i.e. one  
> named with #+TBLNAME)
> 2. table:id -- The unique id of an entry in an org file (the first  
> table under that entry is used)
> 3. csv:path/to/file.csv -- A local csv file
> 4. csv:"http:www.somewhere.xx/file.csv" -- A csv file on the web
>
> org-table-R-apply makes happen whatever is specified in the #+TBLR:
> and #+TBLR:: lines. Tabular output is sent to the org buffer as a new
> org table, or alternatively org-table-R may be used to graph the data
> in the table. Point must be in the first #+TBLR line (previously point
> had to be in the table itself).
>
> The code (with some initial documentation) is at
>
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison/software/org-table-R/org-table-R.el
>
> I'll try to put together some examples of usage for worg.
>
> Dan
>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
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