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[Orgmode] Re: org tables and R
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Tom Breton (Tehom) |
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[Orgmode] Re: org tables and R |
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Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:54:29 -0500 (EST) |
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Dan writes:
> There are more details below. The code is at
>
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison/software/org-table-R/org-table-R.el
>
> It would be great to get any feedback on this. My thought was that
> something like this has the potential to provide a unified plotting
> and table formula interface, which might be attractive to people who
> know and/or like and/or want to learn R. There's lots more that could
> be done with this, and there must be all sorts of bugs in it at this
> stage. But if there's any interest in it then it could be
> improved. Anyway, read on if you're interested in hearing more details
> about the options and actions available.
>
> Dan
Looks like you did a lot of work on this.
> - rownames:<integer>
> Specifies that column n contains the names of the rows of the
> table. These must be unique.
For column names, are you interpreting the existing table column name
syntax? (a special leftmost column with "!" in it (or "^" or "_"))
Or no column names?
> - replace:t
> The original org-table is replaced by the text output (which will be
> an org-table if the result is like a 1- or 2-dimensional array).
Does replace:nil do the opposite?
> - columns:<lisp-list>
> This specifies the columns that the off-the-shelf action will
> operate on (e.g. the columns you want to plot). The simplest case
> is columns:j, where j is an integer. This could also be written
> columns:(j). columns:((1)(2 3)) says that you want a graphic in
> which columns 2 and 3 are plotted on the y-axis, and column 1 is
> plotted on the x-axis. [...]
You might want to accept column names as well as column numbers.
Tom
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