Re: extract a column from a table but but an name on the new table

[Thierry Banel <tbanelwebmin@free.fr>]

On 26/05/2018 10:32, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
>
>     > You may name the Lisp block like that:
>
>     > --------------------------------------
>
>     > #+TBLNAME: raw-data
>     > | 1 | a | 3 |
>     > | 2 | b | 4 |
>     > | 3 | c | 6 |
>     > | 4 | d | 7 |
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> BTW I found it strange that the extracting function does not exist in
> vanilla org.
You may like the out-of-the-boxtable remote references:

| 3 |
| 4 |
| 6 |
| 7 |
|   |
|   |
#+TBLFM: $1=remote(raw-data,@@#$3)

The downside is that you need to create an empty table with the right 
size before filling it with C-u C-c *

>
> My situation is a bit different, since I later want to use R.
>
> So I have
>
>
> #+TBLNAME: raw-data
> | 1 | a | 3 |
> | 2 | b | 4 |
> | 3 | c | 6 |
> | 4 | d | 7 |
>
> #+NAME: NotasA
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp :var data=raw-data
> (mapcar (lambda (line)
>              (list (nth 2 line)))
>           data)
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS: NotasA
> | 3 |
> | 4 |
> | 6 |
> | 7 |
>
>
>
> #+begin_src R  :var notasA=notasA
> summary(notasA)
> #+end_src
>
> And the last call does not work. It seems that R needs a table name.....
>
> Uwe
>

I get a result. Maybe you used downcase "notasA" where uppercase 
"NotasA" was expected?

#+begin_src R  :var notasA=NotasA
summary(notasA)
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
| Min.   :3.00 |
| 1st Qu.:3.75 |
| Median :5.00 |
| Mean   :5.00 |
| 3rd Qu.:6.25 |
| Max.   :7.00 |