From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) Subject: Re: Babel: Processing Tables - Ignore Some Rows Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:25:23 -1000 Message-ID: References: <508FFADC.8000607@wilkesley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTEdG-00011s-0i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:25:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTEd6-0000Zm-9h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:25:37 -0400 Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:38102) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTEd5-0000ZS-To for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:25:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <508FFADC.8000607@wilkesley.net> (Ian Barton's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:05:48 +0000") 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: ian@manor-farm.org Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Aloha Ian, Will indexable variable values do what you want? Something like :var data=monthly_total_mileage[0:-3,]? hth, Tom Ian Barton 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. > > -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com