From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Hackney <dan@haxney.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ob-calc] bug when given table data as a variable
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:10:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87siqvt1jo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAMqXDZvOaCHpsZn0xyZ-DbyOR4mYNMkEUfr+W7mqsRLp6xYe-w@mail.gmail.com
Org-mode's calc support is very limited. I think someone with a working
knowledge of how calc uses vectors would need to add table support.
Unfortunately calc experts seem to be few and far between.
Best,
Daniel Hackney <dan@haxney.org> writes:
> I am trying to use data from a table in a calc source block, but I get
> the following error when trying to eval the block:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> math-format-stack-value: Wrong type argument: symbolp, 10
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> Here is an example file which demonstrates the problem:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> Org version: 8.2.5h (org-20140224 from package)
> Emacs version: 24.3.1
>
> Run after starting Emacs with =emacs -Q=
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> (add-to-list 'org-babel-load-languages '(calc . t))
> (require 'ob-calc)
> #+END_SRC
> #+NAME: the-table
> | a | b | c |
> |---+----+-----|
> | 1 | 10 | 100 |
> | 2 | 20 | 200 |
> | 3 | 30 | 300 |
> | 4 | 40 | 400 |
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var data=the-table[,1]
> 1
> #+END_SRC
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp :var data=the-table[,1]
> (format "%s" data)
> #+END_SRC
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> I'm not familiar with the workings of calc, but is there a workaround?
>
> P.S. Please CC me in replies since I'm not subscribed to the list.
>
> --
> Daniel Hackney
>
--
Eric Schulte
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2014-03-05 3:34 [ob-calc] bug when given table data as a variable Daniel Hackney
2014-03-06 22:10 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2014-03-07 1:02 ` Daniel Hackney
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