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Re: [O] Babel: Processing Tables - Ignore Some Rows
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Thomas S. Dye |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Babel: Processing Tables - Ignore Some Rows |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:25:23 -1000 |
Aloha Ian,
Will indexable variable values do what you want? Something like :var
data=monthly_total_mileage[0:-3,]?
hth,
Tom
Ian Barton <address@hidden> 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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