Re: How to refer to remote table, in another file, as a source block variable?

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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I think you are looking for (Assuming your table is in an org file called
test.org):

#+BEGIN_SRC ipython :var data=test.org:test_table
for row in data:
    print(row)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
:results:
# Out [2]:
# output
['two', 'yes']
['three', 'yes']
['four', 'no']

:end:
John

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On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 5:58 PM William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:

> My apologies for sending this around a second time, but I still haven't
> got it
> so I thought I'd try again.  If it's possible to refer to a remote table
> in
> another file, I've love to know how.
>
>
> Bill
>
>
> On 7 August 2020, William Denton wrote:
>
> > I can't figure this one out.  Let's say I have a table in an Org file,
> like
> > so:
> >
> > # -----
> >
> > * Primes
> >
> > #+NAME: test_table
> > | number | prime |
> > |--------+-------|
> > | two    | yes   |
> > | three  | yes   |
> > | four   | no    |
> >
> > # -----
> >
> > In another file, I want to bring this table into a source block as a
> > variable. If it was the same file, I'd say ":var t=test_table" and
> that's
> > that.  But what's the syntax for a different file?  I can't figure it
> out
> > from the docs [1] and none of my attempts with quotes, file:, etc. work.
> > It's something like this, isn't it?  But what?
> >
> > #+begin_src R :var t=(remote(table.org::*Primes))
> > t
> > #+end_src
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > [1] https://orgmode.org/manual/References.html#References
> > --
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> >
>
> --
> William Denton :: Toronto, Canada   ---   Listening to Art:
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>
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