Re: Babel: Processing Tables - Ignore Some Rows

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

They are documented here: http://orgmode.org/manual/var.html#var, a bit
more than halfway down the long page.

All the best,
Tom

Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:

> Thanks Thomas that works fine. Can you point me to where indexable
> variables are documented, as my feeble search skills seem to be
> faiing.
>
> Ian.
>
> On 30/10/12 16:25, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>> Aloha Ian,
>>
>> Will indexable variable values do what you want? Something like :var
>> data=monthly_total_mileage[0:-3,]?
>>
>> hth,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:
>>
>>> I am using gnuplot to plot some data from a table:
>>>
>>> #+tblname: monthly_total_mileage
>>> |-------+----------|
>>> | Month | Distance |
>>> |-------+----------|
>>> | Jan   |   272.04 |
>>> | Feb   |   317.11 |
>>> | Mar   |   354.27 |
>>> | Apr   |   288.21 |
>>> | May   |   488.35 |
>>> | Jun   |   444.92 |
>>> | Jul   |   497.21 |
>>> | Aug   |   625.35 |
>>> | Sep   |      821 |
>>> | Oct   |    717.9 |
>>> | Nov   |          |
>>> | Dec   |          |
>>> |-------+----------|
>>> | Total |  4826.36 |
>>> |-------+----------|
>>>
>>>
>>> #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=monthly_total_mileage :file
>>> ./monthly_total_mileage.png
>>>     reset
>>>
>>>     set boxwidth 0.5
>>>     set xlabel 'month'
>>>     set ylabel 'distance, km'
>>>
>>>     plot data u 2:xticlabels(1) notitle with boxes fs solid 0.5
>>> #+end_src
>>>
>>> Ideally I want Babel to ignore the Totals row, so it doesn't get
>>> processed and plotted by gnuplot. Is there any way of doing this? I want
>>> to publish the data in several formats, some of which require me to
>>> display the total and some of which don't.
>>>
>>> Any other workarounds gratefully accepted.
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>>
>>
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