Re: Re: org-table and formulas

From: Alan Boudreault <aboudreault@mapgears.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: org-table and formulas
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:23:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001130723.33056.aboudreault@mapgears.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5378FAF3-867E-4E97-B43A-67A5D4B2CCBA@gmail.com>

Thanks for your help Carsten, Stephan and Sébastien. I'm going to take a look 
at your suggestions and see what I can do.

Alan

On January 13, 2010 06:59:54 am Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> I think what you would have to do is to build a lisp function that
> creates the full reference by string manipulation, and then calls org-
> table-get-remote-range directly to retrieve the result.
> 
> That function returns a string or a list of strings, so conversion
> might be needed depending on how you use the result.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> > Hi Sébastien and thank you for your answer.
> >
> > The problem with that technique is that I'll have to name ALL the
> > cell for ALL the colomn. Here's an example of my table:
> >
> > #+TBLNAME: FOOD
> >
> > | Name            | Brand         | Amounts (g) | Calories | Protein
> > | Carbohydrate |  Fat |
> > |-----------------+---------------+-------------+----------+---------
> >
> > +--------------+------|
> >
> > | Poitrine Poulet     | KirkLand      |         100 |      100
> > |      24 |            0 |    1 |
> > | Capeli d'angelo    | Primo         |          85 |      300 |
> >
> > 10 |           63 |    1 |
> >
> > | Couscous              | Clic          |          62 |      220
> > |       8 |           46 |    1 |
> > | Fromage Cottage | Sealtest      |         125 |      100 |      15
> > |            8 |    1 |
> > | Ficello                   | Black Diamond |          21 |       60
> > |       6 |            0 |    4 |
> > | Concombre cru    |               |         100 |       15 |
> >
> > 0.65 |         3.63 | 0.11 |
> >
> > | Clementine cru    |               |         100 |       47 |
> >
> > 0.85 |        12.02 | 0.15 |
> >
> > In the table 2, I would like to be able to just set a column to ie.
> > 2 (for "Poitrine Poulet"), then I'll be able to get all the  info of
> > the different columns I need to do my calculs. I see there is also a
> > "_" option for row name, but I'm unsure on how to specify the column
> > desired with that name and how to get it evaluated if I need to
> > concat something...
> >
> > regards,
> > Alan
> >
> > Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> >> Hi Alan,
> >>
> >> Alan Boudreault wrote:
> >>> Here's what I'm trying to do (without success) in my spreadsheet:
> >>>
> >>> I have a first table :
> >>>
> >>> #+TBLNAME: table1
> >>>
> >>> | ... |... |.... |...|...
> >>>
> >>> and a second table:
> >>>
> >>> #+TBLNAME: table2
> >>>
> >>> | line_reference | ... |... |.... |...|...
> >>>
> >>> The line_reference is the line number to get some information in
> >>> the table1.
> >>> So in a cell of the table2, I tried a formula like: remote(table1,@
> >>> $1$3) ($1
> >>> = the line_reference) which of course, didn't work.
> >>>
> >>> then I tried to use elisp: remote(table1,'(concat "@" $1
> >>> "$3")') .... but no
> >>> success anyway.
> >>>
> >>> after all, I decided to merge my 2 tables because it looks like I
> >>> can use
> >>> elisp inside a org function (remote). The last tried formula was:
> >>> '(concat
> >>> "@" $1 "$3")' ,($1 = the line_reference). The problem of this
> >>> formula is
> >>> only that I got the string "@2$3" inside the cell and it's not
> >>> evaluated as
> >>> a formula.
> >>>
> >>> Could anyone give me some hint to get done what I'm trying to do?
> >>
> >> What I do, which works:
> >>
> >> - give a name to the cell in table1
> >> - reference it (in table2) by its name
> >>
> >>
> >>  #+TBLNAME: Eau
> >>
> >>  |   | Date             | Relevé m3 | Consommation | Prix TVAC |
> >>  |
> >>  |---+------------------+-----------+--------------+-----------|
> >>  |
> >>  |   | [2009-11-15 Sun] | 2072.6263 |       0.0000 |      0.00 |
> >>  |   | [2009-11-22 Sun] | 2074.1774 |       1.5511 |      1.55 |
> >>  |   | [2009-11-29 Sun] | 2076.0834 |       1.9060 |      1.91 |
> >>  |   | [2009-12-06 Sun] | 2077.6757 |       1.5923 |      1.59 |
> >>  |   | [2009-12-13 Sun] | 2079.2140 |       1.5383 |      1.54 |
> >>  |   | [2009-12-20 Sun] | 2081.4222 |       2.2082 |      2.21 |
> >>  |   | [2009-12-27 Sun] | 2083.2146 |       1.7924 |      1.79 |
> >>  |   | [2010-01-03 Sun] | 2085.4916 |       2.2770 |      2.28 |
> >>  |   | [2010-01-10 Sun] | 2087.4283 |       1.9367 |      1.94 |
> >>  |
> >>  | ^ |                  |           |              |       Eau |
> >>
> >>  #+TBLFM: $4=@+0$-1-@-1$-1;%.4f::$5=$4*1;%.2f::@2$4=0;%.4f
> >>
> >>  | Énergie     | Prix TVAC |
> >>  |-------------+-----------|
> >>  | Eau         |      1.94 |
> >>  | Gaz         |    156.81 |
> >>  | Électricité |     11.64 |
> >>  |-------------+-----------|
> >>  | Total       |    170.39 |
> >>
> >>  #+TBLFM: @2$2=remote(Eau,$Eau)::@3$2=remote(Gaz,
> >> $Gaz)::@4$2=remote(Elec,$Elec)::@5$2=vsum(@-I..@-II);%.2f
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>  Seb
> >
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> - Carsten
> 

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Alan Boudreault
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