From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calculate differences of remote table numbers
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 17:19:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2018-10-08T17-11-05@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CALn3zoh0xv7srbB9PvqH-pgukRuQmeaBJrvT30YBmaNKxUHObw@mail.gmail.com
* Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Karl
Hi Michael,
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:02 PM Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to calculate the differences between rows of numbers of a
>> different table.
>
> For this kind of shifting row or column indexes I use Calc vector
> subscript. In your case:
>
> #+NAME: my-table
>| Numbers |
>|---------|
>| 1 |
>| 5 |
>| 8 |
>| 12 |
>| 15 |
>
>| Line | Difference |
>|------+------------|
>| 1 | |
>| 2 | 4 |
>| 3 | 3 |
>| 4 | 4 |
>| 5 | 3 |
> #+TBLFM: $2 = if($1 == 1, string(""), subscr(remote(my-table,
> @I$1..@II$1), @# - 1) - subscr(remote(my-table, @I$1..@II$1), @# - 2))
>
> or, avoiding @# completely in the formula for $2:
>
> #+TBLFM: $2 = if($1 == 1, string(""), subscr(remote(my-table,
> @I$1..@II$1), $1) - subscr(remote(my-table, @I$1..@II$1), $1 - 1))
>
> See also a similar example of subscr in the subsection "Dynamic
> variation of ranges" here:
> https://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#field-coordinates-in-formulas
Thanks for your post - it is working as expected! \o/
Also thanks for the URL - I added it to my knowledge base.
Unfortunately, I have to admit that spreadsheets in Org are not
something I can recommend to somebody who needs "something that just
works" (like Excel-switcher). :-(
However, when a table is finally working as expected, I really do
appreciate having this table (and its derived data) within my notes
and not locked away in a separate file.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-01 15:01 Calculate differences of remote table numbers Karl Voit
2018-10-01 16:36 ` Nick Dokos
2018-10-04 7:25 ` Karl Voit
2018-10-04 16:37 ` Nick Dokos
2018-10-05 17:46 ` Michael Brand
2018-10-08 15:19 ` Karl Voit [this message]
2018-10-08 15:50 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-10-08 16:16 ` Complexity of using spreadsheet functionality (was: Calculate differences of remote table numbers) Karl Voit
2018-10-09 5:34 ` Complexity of using spreadsheet functionality Eric S Fraga
2018-10-12 21:48 ` Complexity of using spreadsheet functionality (was: Calculate differences of remote table numbers) Samuel Wales
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