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From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to refer to remote table, in another file, as a source block variable?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:57:48 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.2009141752260.23596@shell.miskatonic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.2008071518410.16224@shell.miskatonic.org>

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
> --
> William Denton :: Toronto, Canada   ---   Listening to Art: 
> https://listeningtoart.org/
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>

--
William Denton :: Toronto, Canada   ---   Listening to Art: https://listeningtoart.org/
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Caveat lector.                      ---   STAPLR: https://staplr.org/


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-14 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-07 19:27 How to refer to remote table, in another file, as a source block variable? William Denton
2020-09-14 21:57 ` William Denton [this message]
2020-09-14 23:11   ` John Kitchin
2020-09-17 21:01     ` William Denton
2020-09-23  7:26       ` Bastien

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