From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: making flexible table formulas
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:18:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26098.1298917110@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> of "Mon\, 28 Feb 2011 23\:05\:07 +0530." <AANLkTim1FhPLotsjEMfV+V0BpF0+PmJ9fcUXSDH6KutA@mail.gmail.com>
Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> When using orgmode for hacking on data in a table (org a la spreadsheet) I have this situation
> Say I am concentrating on column 2 and I want the bottom cell to be the sum of the above cells
> For a 7 row table with 8th row having the total I get
>
> #+TBLFM: @8$2=vsum(@1$2..@7$2)
>
> But now I have a problem: If say I add a row to the table then the next time I recompute the formula
> (s) the ninth row is not affected and the 8th row which is now data gets overwritten with a
> computation.
>
> So basically I want the @1 and @7 which are hardcoded above to be replaced by something to the
> effect: "everything above..." and the @8$2 should be something to the tune of "bottom of $2"
>
> I guess this may not be a reasonable request -- but with org you never know :-) so asking if there
> is some way.
>
>
Of course it's reasonable - and of course, org implements it :-)
#+TBLFM: $LR2=vsum(@1..@-1)
In words: column 2 of the last row is the sum of all the rows
(implicitly in column 2) from row 1 to the row above the last one.
See section 3.5.1, "Tables>The spreadsheet>References" for more details.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-28 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-28 17:35 making flexible table formulas Rustom Mody
2011-02-28 18:14 ` Luke Crook
2011-02-28 18:18 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-03-01 9:08 ` Carsten Dominik
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2011-03-01 3:19 Rustom Mody
2011-03-01 4:41 ` theo
2011-03-01 5:10 ` Nick Dokos
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