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From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@broggs.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: org-table relative reference questions
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:35:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150420133528.GB16503@broggs.org> (raw)

I'm looking for a way to reference a row or column on both the left side and right side of a table formula that is "easily" manipulable.  

At first, I thought the hline references would work for me @I..@II, except they cannot be used on the left side of an equation.  I hoped that maybe named fields would work (^,_), but those are apparently value aliases and not location references.

Essentially, I want to keep a single table in which I can enter and calculate data, and limit the computation to start at a given row that I change as I go along.  Maybe I'm simply using the wrong tool for this, excel is certainly not capable; so if org-table isn't either, it certainly doesn't lessen it.

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

| F |  A |  B |  C |
|---+----+----+----|
| _ | tA | tB | tC |
|   |  1 |  3 | 42 |
|   |  2 |  4 | 69 |
|---+----+----+----|
| # |    |    |    |
#+TBLFM=@>$2=vsum(@tA..@II)::$tC=$-2+$-1

| F |  A |  B |  C |
|---+----+----+----|
|   |  1 |  3 | 42 |
| _ | tA | tB | tC |
|   |  2 |  4 | 69 |
|---+----+----+----|
| # |    |    |    |
#+TBLFM=@>$2=vsum(@tA..@II)::$tC=$-2+$-1

#+END_EXAMPLE




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next             reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 13:35 Jeffrey Brent McBeth [this message]
2015-04-20 14:38 ` org-table relative reference questions Jeffrey Brent McBeth
2015-04-21  8:13 ` Michael Brand
2015-04-21 14:43   ` Jeffrey Brent McBeth

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