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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