Re: Finding calc/elisp methods

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> ...
> Leslie helped here by mentioning vmin/vmax which is that obvious
> that I do feel embarrassed now ;-)
>
> #+TBLFM: @2$1=vmin(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$2=vmax(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$3=vmean(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$4=remote(myvalues,@2$1)::@2$5=remote(myvalues,@>$1)
>
> However, let's make this thread a valuable one by adding a question:
> how does somebody find such things? Is there a source of information
> where I could find calc methods by "apropos" method together with
> elisp methods?
>
> "M-h a minimum" returns only calc-find-minimum which is hardly of
> any help in this case. "apropos-documentation" returns more results
> but still lacks "vmin".
>
> What is your method of choice to find answers to those kind of
> questions? At least my internet search engine of choice did not help
> me in the first place.

A long time ago, I struggled with this question and I don't know
of a satisfying answer. For a while, I went directly to the
following info node and looked around:

    (info "(calc) Matrix Functions")

Now I just remember the initial "v" :-)

But there are other calc functions that are useful as well, so this
will certainly not suffice in general. But it's a start.

-- 
Nick