Hi Andreas
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Andreas Leha
<andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> I have two questions concerning tables in orgmode:
I try to answer your first question:
> 1. What is the best way to handle missing values?
> I have the problem, that missing values ("") are treated as "0" when they
> appear in a formula.
> Entering ("nil") instead helps a bit, but does not propagate,
> i.e. nil + 1 results in 0.
> Can I do better?
Is this what you are looking for?:
| Tomato | | |
| Pear | 3.00 | 6.00 |
#+TBLFM: $3 = if("$2" == "nan", string(""), 2 * $2 +.0); E f-2
For "E" see
http://orgmode.org/org.html#Formula-syntax-for-Calc
and for "+.0; f-2" see
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#table-float-fraction
Michael
