Re: [O] Bug: missing header argument does not work any longer [8.3.4 (8.3.4-47-gaf853d-elpaplus c:/Users/harald/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20160502/)]

[Harald Sanftmann]

Hi Nick, this is what is output to the *gnupolt* buffer: data = "" set term svg set output "data-missing.svg" set 34 set 56 set 44 this is what I have in the file above: JET    2012-01-01    1000        2012-02-01    2000    100 DUMMY    2012-03-01    3000        2012-04-01    4000    100 OMV    2012-05-01    5000    "OMV PETROM"    2012-06-01    6000    "OMV PETROM"    2012-07-01    7000    OMV    2012-08-01    8000    BP    2012-09-01    9000    Is this different from what you got? Thanks & Regards, Harald From: Nick Dokos <ndokos <at> gmail.com> Subject: Re: Bug: missing header argument does not work any longer [8.3.4 (8.3.4-47-gaf853d-elpaplus <at> c:/Users/harald/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20160502/)] Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode Date: 2016-05-06 18:37:52 GMT (4 days, 1 hour and 53 minutes ago) Harald Sanftmann <haraldsa <at> web.de> writes: > I have some org-tables which contain empty fields. I specified :missing "?" to get the right results. > When I try to plot them with Gnuplot the empty fields are not exported as '?' but just as empty strings > ''. Gnuplot therefore just uses the next non empty field for the value and therefore shifts the columns > of the given row. > > To make it more concrete: > >   #+TBLNAME: data-missing >   | Comment    |    gnutime | milage/km | something else | >   |------------+------------+-----------+----------------| >   | JET        | 2012-01-01 |      1000 |                | >   |            | 2012-02-01 |      2000 |            100 | >   | DUMMY      | 2012-03-01 |      3000 |                | >   |            | 2012-04-01 |      4000 |            100 | >   | OMV        | 2012-05-01 |      5000 |                | >   | OMV PETROM | 2012-06-01 |      6000 |                | >   | OMV PETROM | 2012-07-01 |      7000 |                | >   | OMV        | 2012-08-01 |      8000 |                | >   | BP         | 2012-09-01 |      9000 |                | >   #+begin_src gnuplot :var data="" :exports both :file data-missing.svg :missing "?" :set > "xtics nomirror rotate by -45 font \",8\"" >   reset >   set xtics nomirror rotate by -45 font ",8" >   set title "Fahr Plot" >   set xdata time >   set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S" >   set xlabel "Time" >   set ylabel "Distance" >   set format y "%.0s T%cm" >   set key top left >   FIT_LIMIT = 1e-36 >   m=100 >   c=-100000 >   >   y(x) = m*x+c >   fit y(x) data using 2:3 via c, m >   >   plot data u 2:3 w lp lw 1 title 'Distance', \ >        y(x) title "line fit" >   #+end_src > > This is what I get: > [cid] > > When I fill out the empty fields in the first column of the table I get the right result: > [cid] > I am using Org-mode version 8.3.4. With Org Version 8.2.5h everything works fine. > > > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) >  of 2015-04-11 on LEG570 > Package: Org-mode version 8.3.4 (8.3.4-47-gaf853d-elpaplus <at> c:/Users/harald/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/ > elpa/org-plus-contrib-20160502/) I use more-or-less latest org: Org-mode version 8.3.4 (release_8.3.4-718-g634e12) GNU Emacs 25.0.50.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) FWIW, I cannot reproduce this problem: the plot comes out fine. -- Nick