Re: equivalent of VLOOKUP (in ods) to org-table

[Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs@gmail.com>]

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> so the question is what is equivalent of VLOOKUP in org.

Did you check these lookup functions in the Org manual?

   (info "(org) Lookup functions")


Bruno.



>
> I came up with the remote command that results in a similar result, (I did not want to use third party packages like 
> orgtbl-aggregate. 
>
> #+begin_src 
> #+Name: table1
> | Name   | Ex1 | Ex2 | Ex2 | Ex4 | Ex5 | ResSh1 |
> |--------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--------|
> | Smith  |   2 |   3 |   4 |   6 |   7 |     22 |
> | Miller |   2 |  10 |   1 |   1 |   5 |     19 |
> | Wick   |   1 |   2 |   3 |  10 |   2 |     18 |
> #+TBLFM: $7=vsum($2..$6);f2
>
>
> #+Name: table2   
> | Name   | Ex1 | Ex2 | Ex2 | Ex4 | Ex5 | ResSh2 |
> |--------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--------|
> | Smith  |   8 |   3 |   5 |   8 |   9 |     33 |
> | Miller |   9 |   4 |   6 |   9 |   3 |     31 |
> | Wick   |   1 |   5 |   9 |   1 |   2 |     18 |
> |--------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--------|
> #+TBLFM: $7=vsum($2..$6);f2
>
> #+Name: final
> | Name   | Some | ResSh1 | ResSh2 | Final |
> |--------+------+--------+--------+-------|
> | Smith  |    4 |     22 |     33 |    59 |
> | Miller |    4 |     19 |     31 |    54 |
> | Wick   |    4 |     18 |     18 |    40 |
> |--------+------+--------+--------+-------|
> #+TBLFM: $3=remote(table1,@@#$7)::$4=remote(table2,@@#$7)::$5=vsum($2..$4);f2
> #+end_src
>
>
> The syntax with @@#$7 look cryptic to me, but I found it somewhere and it works
> if somebody can suggest a simpler command that is closer to VLOOKUP I would be grateful
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Uwe Brauer 
>
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