Re: could a :var header argument refer to a data table in another file?

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

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This syntax works for me.

#+BEGIN_SRC python :var data=data.org:remote-table
print(data)
#+END_SRC



John

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On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:36 AM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> TL;DR: I have the need to reference a table that is in another file to
> pass as data to a src block in the current file.  Is this possible?
> Hints welcome!
>
> Longer version: I am running a series of numerical experiments, each of
> which generates output files (using org syntax!).  I want to process the
> data in those files for inclusion in a paper.  Now, I could write a
> shell script which extracts all these data and collates them etc. but it
> would be ideal if I could simply refer to a table in another file
> directly.  The tables are all named although a given table in each
> output file will have the same name (I hope that makes sense).
>
> One thing that comes to mind is some elisp in the argument to the :var
> header argument.  Is this possible?  I've not tried...
>
> Thank you,
> eric
>
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