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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Computations on properties
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:23:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh7ub8wd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo2ymkq6.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:12:49 +0200")

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Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Thierry Pellé <thierry.pelle@soliavos.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>   I'm seeking how to do something like that
>>>
>>> Let the following text inserted in an org-mode file
>>>
>>> * Mean Calculation
>>>  :PROPERTIES:
>>>  :VAL1: 5
>>>  :VAL2: 10
>>>  :COEF: 10
>>>  :END:
>>>
>>> I would like to append the result of a computation 
>>> like RES=(VAL1*COEF+VAL2)/(COEF+1) 
>>>
>>> Something like 
>>> * Mean Calculation
>>> ...
>>>   :END:
>>>
>>> Mean Calculation=RES (where RES is the value of the result)
>>>
>>> I think to do this with a python script but is there a more org-mode/emacs
>>> method to do it?
>>
>> Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a way to draw property values
>> directly into a babel block, the way you can with table data. Sort of
>> like:
>>
>> * Heading
>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>   :ID:       3f78f08a-ccca-4fc0-aba9-2a192f7a0e5a
>>   :foo:  5
>>   :bar:  puppy
>>   :END:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var alist=3f78f08a-ccca-4fc0-aba9-2a192f7a0e5a
>>
>> And in the block, the "alist" variable would look like '(:foo 5 :bar
>> "puppy").
>>
>> What would be even better would be to run a tags search on matching
>> headlines and feed all property drawers into a single block, as a list
>> of alists. Just thinking out loud...
>
> This is probably not really what you want, but at least somehow related. I
> would not know how to do this via source-block arguments, but maybe you can
> use the results of one source-block (that produces the data) as input for
> another source-block that does the real work. 
>
> * Heading 1 :match:
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :ID:       3f78f08a-ccca-4fc0-aba9-2a192f7a0e5a
>   :foo:  5
>   :bar:  puppy
>   :END:
>
> * Heading 2
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :ID:       3f78f08a-ccca-4fc0-aba9-2a192f7a0e5b
>   :foo:  6
>   :bar: yuppy
>   :END:
>
>
> * Heading 3 :match:
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :ID:       3f78f08a-ccca-4fc0-aba9-2a192f7a0e5c
>   :foo:  7
>   :bar:  hippie
>   :END:
>
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results raw
>    (let ((lst))
>       (org-map-entries
>        (lambda () (cons (org-entry-properties) lst))
>        "match" 'file))
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> ((((FILE . /home/tj/News/drafts/drafts/419) (TAGS . :match:) (ALLTAGS
> . :match:) (BLOCKED . ) (ID . 3f78f08a-ccca-4fc0-aba9-2a192f7a0e5a) (foo . 5)
> (bar . puppy) (CATEGORY . 419))) (((FILE . /home/tj/News/drafts/drafts/419)
> (TAGS . :match:) (ALLTAGS . :match:) (BLOCKED . ) (ID .
> 3f78f08a-ccca-4fc0-aba9-2a192f7a0e5c) (foo . 7) (bar . hippie) (CATEGORY .
> 419))))

Or maybe something like the following...


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* Mean Calculation
 :PROPERTIES:
 :VAL1: 5
 :VAL2: 10
 :COEF: 10
 :END:

#+begin_src python :var props=(mapcar (lambda (p) (list (car p) (cdr p))) (org-entry-properties))
  return props
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
| FILE     | /tmp/property-computation.org |
| BLOCKED  |                               |
| VAL1     |                             5 |
| VAL2     |                            10 |
| COEF     |                            10 |
| CATEGORY |          property-computation |

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-- 
Eric Schulte
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-09 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-09 12:19 Computations on properties Thierry Pellé
2013-10-09 12:50 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-09 13:32   ` Thierry Pellé
2013-10-09 15:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-09 17:12   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-09 18:21     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-09 18:23     ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2013-10-10  4:52       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-09 19:27 ` Michael Brand
2013-10-10  6:39   ` Thierry Pellé
2013-10-10  9:04     ` Michael Brand

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