From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
To: Roland Donat <roland.donat@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to pass named table reference in source block variable
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 05:29:25 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1y58dv7sa.fsf@poto.myhome.westell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130807T102035-552@post.gmane.org> (Roland Donat's message of "Wed, 7 Aug 2013 08:28:17 +0000 (UTC)")
Roland Donat <roland.donat@gmail.com> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> This does the job in Emacs Lisp:
>>
>> #+TBLNAME: T
>> | | x | 1 |
>> | ^ | | varx |
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var x=T[0,-1]
>> x
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+results:
>> : 1
>>
>
> Thanks for the answer but in fact, my objective is precisely to avoid using
> the indices of the value I want to pass as input of the code block.
>
> My goal is to use the cell name reference "varx" which would make the code
> block simpler to maintain. Indeed, if I add new data on the top of table T,
> I wouldn't have to change the reference in the code block since the name
> reference is fixed.
>
>
Perhaps this can help:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/lob-table-operations.html
Alternatively, you might pass the table to a code block of a language
that understands tables, such as an R data frame, and use that language
to retrieve values by name.
hth,
Tom
--
Thomas S. Dye
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-07 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-06 21:31 How to pass named table reference in source block variable Roland Donat
2013-08-06 22:22 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-08-06 22:27 ` Nick Dokos
2013-08-07 8:28 ` Roland Donat
2013-08-07 15:29 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2013-08-07 20:06 ` Roland Donat
2013-08-07 21:53 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-08-08 7:55 ` Roland Donat
2013-08-08 15:10 ` Eric Schulte
2013-08-08 15:42 ` Roland Donat
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