This was an old way to refer to fields in the last row.  It was already deprecated in 2011.  I also does not seem to work anymore.

I had forgotten all about it and only found it back with 

git log -S \$LR --source --all | less

which pointed me to commit 8237c9ae6d587a22646333e0315683675e2db538

Carsten

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 1:56 PM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
Ignore my previous email/post.  I was obviously under the influence.  I
see the LR references in the code.
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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.6-492-gc990d4