From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
To: ian@manor-farm.org
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Babel: Processing Tables - Ignore Some Rows
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:02:11 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1liem8wak.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509147B9.6030200@wilkesley.net> (Ian Barton's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:46:01 +0000")
They are documented here: http://orgmode.org/manual/var.html#var, a bit
more than halfway down the long page.
All the best,
Tom
Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
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Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
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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
2012-10-31 16:02 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
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