From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: calculating column averages follow up Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:55:09 -0400 Message-ID: <11092.1311332109@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QkDNy-0005fW-MI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:55:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QkDNx-0000wB-Dn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:55:14 -0400 Received: from g4t0016.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.19]:29780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QkDNx-0000vk-8W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:55:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Jude DaShiell of "Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:35:42 EDT." 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: Jude DaShiell Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Jude DaShiell wrote: > I removed a separator line above averages and removed a row with blank > fields and ran the calculation on this table and it does have a defective > formula but I don't know where the defect is now. > > | Date Stamp | Systalic | Diastalic | Pulse | | | | | | | | > |------------------------+----------+-----------+-------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---| > | [2011-07-19 Tue 02:26] | 138 | 92 | 74 | | | | | | | | > | [2011-07-21 Thu 03:50] | 128 | 79 | 76 | | | | | | | | > | [2011-07-20 Wed 04:03] | 130 | 85 | 74 | | | | | | | | > | [2011-07-22 Fri 02:33] | 121 | 80 | 79 | | | | | | | | > | Averages | #ERROR | | | | | | | | | | > | | | - | | | | | | | | | > | | | | | | | | | | | | > #+TBLFM: $2=vmean(@<..@>) > Two problems: 1) you want to set a single cell but the way the formula is written makes it a column formula and 2) the rows as written include the header line and go all the way to the bottom - assuming you want the two rows after the "Averages" row, you can say #+TBLFM: @>>>$2=vmean(@<<..@>>>>) That says "the third row from the bottom in column two is the mean of the rows in the same column, ranging from second from the top to fourth from the bottom". I thought I could use references relative to @> (e.g. @>-3) but apparently that's not the case: #+TBLFM: @>>>$2=vmean(@<<..@>-3) does not work for me. Nick