Don't worry about a late reply. Sometimes I need a lot of time just to read the E-Mails here in the list (this is one of the most active lists I have ever seen and a really good one to follow) and I wonder how you guys not only read it but also fix bugs and implement new features.
Thanks for this Eric. It sure opens a lot of possibilities. - Darlan At Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:34:55 -0700, Eric Schulte wrote: > > Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darc...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > Is there a way to ignore some lines when using org-plot/gnuplot to plot a > > table > > in Org? I have a table with some expenses, but the last two lines are the > > total > > calculated from the previous lines. I'd like to plot only the expenses and > > ignore the last two lines. > > > > In the docs there is the option "deps" to specify which columns should be > > plotted but I can't find an equivalent for lines (there is a line option > > but I > > understand that it is used to send some extra command to gnuplot). > > > > Hi Darlan, > > Sorry about the extremely delayed reply. I don't believe that what > you've described is possible in the current implementation of org-plot. > It is possible however using org-babel which supports gnuplot. > Org-babel now allows indexing into the values of variable assignments. > > So for example a simple gnuplot example could graph the contents of a > table by assigning that table to a variable > > #+tblname: squares > | 1 | 1 | > | 2 | 4 | > | 3 | 9 | > | 4 | 16 | > | 5 | 25 | > | 6 | 36 | > > #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=squares :results silent > plot data using 1:2 with lines > #+end_src > > with this new change it is possible to assign only part of the table to > a variable as you've described above. For example > > #+tblname: squares-with-sum > | 1 | 1 | > | 2 | 4 | > | 3 | 9 | > | 4 | 16 | > | 5 | 25 | > | 6 | 36 | > |----+----| > | 21 | 91 | > > #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=squares-with-sum[0:-3] :results silent > plot data using 1:2 with lines > #+end_src > > For more information on indexing see the documentation of the > `org-babel-ref-index-list' function. > > Thanks for motivating this new feature -- Eric > > > > > > > - Darlan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
