Re: [O] Calculate differences of remote table numbers

[Michael Brand]

Hi Karl

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:02 PM Karl Voit <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like to calculate the differences between rows of numbers of a
> different table.

For this kind of shifting row or column indexes I use Calc vector
subscript. In your case:

#+NAME: my-table
| Numbers |
|---------|
|       1 |
|       5 |
|       8 |
|      12 |
|      15 |

| Line | Difference |
|------+------------|
|    1 |            |
|    2 |          4 |
|    3 |          3 |
|    4 |          4 |
|    5 |          3 |
#+TBLFM: $2 = if($1 == 1, string(""), subscr(remote(my-table,
@address@hidden), @# - 1) - subscr(remote(my-table, @address@hidden), @# - 2))

or, avoiding @# completely in the formula for $2:

#+TBLFM: $2 = if($1 == 1, string(""), subscr(remote(my-table,
@address@hidden), $1) - subscr(remote(my-table, @address@hidden), $1 - 1))

See also a similar example of subscr in the subsection "Dynamic
variation of ranges" here:
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#field-coordinates-in-formulas

Michael