Re: Multicolumn

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

Neuwirth Erich <erich.neuwirth@univie.ac.at> writes:

> My problem is that the tables are produce by R code snippets.
> The code snippets produce plain org tables, bracketed by attributes identifying 
> the text as ORG code.
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> #+RESULTS:
> #+BEGIN_ORG
> | Jahr | Region | m   | w   | pWert | m.se  | w.se  |
> |------+--------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------|
> | 2000 | Sonst  | 508 | 507 | 0.85  | 4.91  | 4.93  |
> #+END_ORG
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> I am able to insert additional lines before and after the text produce
> by the R commands with the following technique (in R):
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> print(as.table(NULL),quote=FALSE,type="org")
> cat("|-------|\n")
> print(res,type="org")
> cat("|-------|\n")
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> So I could write a line with my multicol headers.
> But for that to work, org mode would have to honor multicol indicators
> in the text.

Alternatively, compose latex or html tables in R and then have the source
code block :results output latex or :results output html

That should wrap the output in #+BEGIN_LATEX ... #+END_LATEX, which org
will export directly to LaTeX, or #+BEGIN_HTML ... #+END_HTML, which org
will export directly to HTML.

hth,
Tom
 
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> On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:28 AM, "Christopher J. White"
> <orgmode@grierwhite.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Erich,
>> 
>> I have a hack for multicolumn support that may help... It's not
>> great, but serves my purpose.
>> 
>> I implemented a TWiki mode that uses orgtbl-minor-mode.  TWiki pages
>> support multicolumn cells by adding vertical bars with no
>> separators:
>> 
>> Display:
>> 
>> |  Multicol     |
>> |  C1   |   C2  |
>> 
>> TWiki format:
>> | Multicol ||
>> | C1 | C2 |
>> 
>> Notice the double vertical bars after Multicol.  The number of
>> vertical bars on every row must be the same.  You can join as many
>> cells as you want that way.  I basically wanted to be able to still
>> use orgtbl-minor-mode to edit such tables.  So I hacked my
>> twiki-import/export code to convert "||" to "| << |" and vice-versa.
>> 
>> So the orgtbl version of the above looks like this in the buffer:
>> 
>> | Multicol | << |
>> | C1       | C2 |
>> 
>> The down side is that the text "Multicol" will expand the display
>> size of C1, so if it gets long, the table grows:
>> 
>> | This is a long multicol cell | << |
>> | C1                           | C2 |
>> 
>> So it gets me what I want, which is orgtbl editing, and
>> import/export support to twiki format.  Seems a similar technique
>> could be backed in to any org export engine.
>> 
>> ...cj
>> 
>> On 8/28/12 5:10 PM, Neuwirth Erich wrote:
>>> After some googling it seems that multicolumn support is not yet
>>> implemented in org tables.
>>> I would need multicolumn headers quite urgently,
>>> but I have not yet found a way to make this possible.
>>> 
>>> I think that tables with headers like this:
>>> 
>>> |               |    mean       |         s.e.        |
>>> | gender | varA | varB |  varA | varB |
>>> 
>>> are quite common, so I really want to put this feature on the wish list.
>>> I am not able to implement this myself.
>>> 
>>> Erich
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