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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Finding calc/elisp methods
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:02:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw1psv8w.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2017-08-02T16-48-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> ...
> Leslie helped here by mentioning vmin/vmax which is that obvious
> that I do feel embarrassed now ;-)
>
> #+TBLFM: @2$1=vmin(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$2=vmax(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$3=vmean(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$4=remote(myvalues,@2$1)::@2$5=remote(myvalues,@>$1)
>
> However, let's make this thread a valuable one by adding a question:
> how does somebody find such things? Is there a source of information
> where I could find calc methods by "apropos" method together with
> elisp methods?
>
> "M-h a minimum" returns only calc-find-minimum which is hardly of
> any help in this case. "apropos-documentation" returns more results
> but still lacks "vmin".
>
> What is your method of choice to find answers to those kind of
> questions? At least my internet search engine of choice did not help
> me in the first place.

A long time ago, I struggled with this question and I don't know
of a satisfying answer. For a while, I went directly to the
following info node and looked around:

    (info "(calc) Matrix Functions")

Now I just remember the initial "v" :-)

But there are other calc functions that are useful as well, so this
will certainly not suffice in general. But it's a start.

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-02 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-02 12:07 Determine min/max values in a table Karl Voit
2017-08-02 14:56 ` Finding calc/elisp methods (was: Determine min/max values in a table) Karl Voit
2017-08-02 18:02   ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2017-08-02 18:22   ` Finding calc/elisp methods Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-08-03  9:58   ` Adam Porter
2017-08-02 21:22 ` Determine min/max values in a table Thierry Banel
2017-08-03  9:53   ` Adam Porter
2017-08-05 21:20     ` Karl Voit
     [not found] ` <c1ddc30d7673477da50fa40d6d00ac2d@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-08-15 16:57   ` Finding calc/elisp methods Eric S Fraga

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