Thanks Dan!
My idea was to go through a long imported table and quickly categorize the
different rows
into a number of predefined categories, without having to actually type the
category for
each row. Can I do that?

If babel is a way, I think I would prefer to use python as I am familiar
with it. But I have not used
it with babel, is that possible?

Best regards,
Johan


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I wonder if it is possible to tag rows in a table?
> >
> > For example, if  I have a table of expenses, i.e. columns with "date",
> "note" and "sum",
> > and then want to group the entries into different categories such as
> "groceries", "car" etc.
> >
> > Can I do this someway?
>
> Hi Johan,
>
> You can't attach metadata such as tags to table rows. Two things come to
> mind.
>
> 1. If you just want the table for visual purposes (as opposed for doing
>   calculations with it), then you could use column-view. I.e. you would
>   have a subtree for groceries and a subtree for car; categories such
>   as date, note and sum would be stored in properties.
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-view.html#Column-view
>
> Visibility cycling works in column view so you can group and ungroup the
> rows.
>
> [is there anyway of creating a normal Org table from a column view
> "table"?]
>
> 2. org-babel: If you're happy with a suitable supported language, then
>   store the category label in a column and you can transform the master
>   table however you want. R would be a convenient language for working
>   with a table like this.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Johan
> >
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