From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IEJ1ZzogbWlzc2luZyBoZWFkZXIgYXJndW1lbnQgZG9lcyBu?= =?UTF-8?B?b3Qgd29yayBhbnkgbG9uZ2VyIFs4LjMuNCAoOC4zLjQtNDctZ2FmODUzZC1l?= =?UTF-8?B?bHBhcGx1cyBAIGM6L1VzZXJzL2hhcmFsZC9BcHBEYXRhL1JvYW1pbmcvLmVt?= =?UTF-8?B?YWNzLmQvZWxwYS9vcmctcGx1cy1jb250cmliLTIwMTYwNTAyLyld?= Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 14:37:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87a8k3jam7.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <01ba2743-3517-4ae8-149e-c807672d6622@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aykdv-0006Hf-Dj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 14:38:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aykdi-0003VR-PY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 14:38:21 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aykdi-0003SH-Jb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 14:38:14 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aykdY-00051B-38 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 20:38:04 +0200 Received: from nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com ([66.187.233.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 May 2016 20:38:04 +0200 Received: from ndokos by nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 May 2016 20:38:04 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Harald Sanftmann writes: > I have some org-tables which contain empty fields. I specified :missing "?" to get the right results. > When I try to plot them with Gnuplot the empty fields are not exported as '?' but just as empty strings > ''. Gnuplot therefore just uses the next non empty field for the value and therefore shifts the columns > of the given row. > > To make it more concrete: > >   #+TBLNAME: data-missing >   | Comment    |    gnutime | milage/km | something else | >   |------------+------------+-----------+----------------| >   | JET        | 2012-01-01 |      1000 |                | >   |            | 2012-02-01 |      2000 |            100 | >   | DUMMY      | 2012-03-01 |      3000 |                | >   |            | 2012-04-01 |      4000 |            100 | >   | OMV        | 2012-05-01 |      5000 |                | >   | OMV PETROM | 2012-06-01 |      6000 |                | >   | OMV PETROM | 2012-07-01 |      7000 |                | >   | OMV        | 2012-08-01 |      8000 |                | >   | BP         | 2012-09-01 |      9000 |                | >   #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=data-missing :exports both :file data-missing.svg :missing "?" :set > "xtics nomirror rotate by -45 font \",8\"" >   reset >   set xtics nomirror rotate by -45 font ",8" >   set title "Fahr Plot" >   set xdata time >   set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S" >   set xlabel "Time" >   set ylabel "Distance" >   set format y "%.0s T%cm" >   set key top left >   FIT_LIMIT = 1e-36 >   m=100 >   c=-100000 >   >   y(x) = m*x+c >   fit y(x) data using 2:3 via c, m >   >   plot data u 2:3 w lp lw 1 title 'Distance', \ >        y(x) title "line fit" >   #+end_src > > This is what I get: > [cid] > > When I fill out the empty fields in the first column of the table I get the right result: > [cid] > I am using Org-mode version 8.3.4. With Org Version 8.2.5h everything works fine. > > > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) >  of 2015-04-11 on LEG570 > Package: Org-mode version 8.3.4 (8.3.4-47-gaf853d-elpaplus @ c:/Users/harald/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/ > elpa/org-plus-contrib-20160502/) I use more-or-less latest org: Org-mode version 8.3.4 (release_8.3.4-718-g634e12) GNU Emacs 25.0.50.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) FWIW, I cannot reproduce this problem: the plot comes out fine. -- Nick