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Re: [O] Finding calc/elisp methods
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Adam Porter |
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Re: [O] Finding calc/elisp methods |
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Thu, 03 Aug 2017 04:58:51 -0500 |
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Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:
> Leslie helped here by mentioning vmin/vmax which is that obvious
> that I do feel embarrassed now ;-)
>
> #+TBLFM:
> @2$1=vmin(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$2=vmax(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$3=vmean(remote(myvalues,@2$1..@>$1))::@2$4=remote(myvalues,@2$1)::@2$5=remote(myvalues,@>$1)
>
> However, let's make this thread a valuable one by adding a question:
> how does somebody find such things? Is there a source of information
> where I could find calc methods by "apropos" method together with
> elisp methods?
>
> "M-h a minimum" returns only calc-find-minimum which is hardly of
> any help in this case. "apropos-documentation" returns more results
> but still lacks "vmin".
>
> What is your method of choice to find answers to those kind of
> questions? At least my internet search engine of choice did not help
> me in the first place.
IIRC these kinds of things are in the Org manual and info pages. Helm's
helm-info-org command is very helpful for finding things in the Org info
manual.
I learned something new today: I didn't realize that Org could use
calc-mode commands in tables. Wow. Org never ceases to surprise and
amaze me!
So googling for "org table calc" I got the manual page:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Formula-syntax-for-Calc.html
It wouldn't hurt to add a section to that page explaining how to find
more info about the calc functions... ;)