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From: Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Babel: Processing Tables - Ignore Some Rows
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:46:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509147B9.6030200@wilkesley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1vcds9bbg.fsf@tsdye.com>

Thanks Thomas that works fine. Can you point me to where indexable 
variables are documented, as my feeble search skills seem to be faiing.

Ian.

On 30/10/12 16:25, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> Aloha Ian,
>
> Will indexable variable values do what you want? Something like :var
> data=monthly_total_mileage[0:-3,]?
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
>
> Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:
>
>> I am using gnuplot to plot some data from a table:
>>
>> #+tblname: monthly_total_mileage
>> |-------+----------|
>> | Month | Distance |
>> |-------+----------|
>> | Jan   |   272.04 |
>> | Feb   |   317.11 |
>> | Mar   |   354.27 |
>> | Apr   |   288.21 |
>> | May   |   488.35 |
>> | Jun   |   444.92 |
>> | Jul   |   497.21 |
>> | Aug   |   625.35 |
>> | Sep   |      821 |
>> | Oct   |    717.9 |
>> | Nov   |          |
>> | Dec   |          |
>> |-------+----------|
>> | Total |  4826.36 |
>> |-------+----------|
>>
>>
>> #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=monthly_total_mileage :file
>> ./monthly_total_mileage.png
>>     reset
>>
>>     set boxwidth 0.5
>>     set xlabel 'month'
>>     set ylabel 'distance, km'
>>
>>     plot data u 2:xticlabels(1) notitle with boxes fs solid 0.5
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Ideally I want Babel to ignore the Totals row, so it doesn't get
>> processed and plotted by gnuplot. Is there any way of doing this? I want
>> to publish the data in several formats, some of which require me to
>> display the total and some of which don't.
>>
>> Any other workarounds gratefully accepted.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>>
>

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30 16:05 Babel: Processing Tables - Ignore Some Rows Ian Barton
2012-10-30 16:25 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-10-31 15:46   ` Ian Barton [this message]
2012-10-31 16:02     ` Thomas S. Dye

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