From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Finding calc/elisp methods Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:02:55 -0400 Message-ID: <87tw1psv8w.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <2017-08-02T14-05-32@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <2017-08-02T16-48-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxzP-0002CF-4i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:03:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxzK-0000FM-EN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:03:23 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57917 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxzK-0000F0-8X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:03:18 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxz6-0002SO-7t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:03:04 +0200 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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Karl Voit 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