Hi James, James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> writes:
> At Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:35:51 +0800, > James Harkins wrote: >> Anyway, I'm not convinced that org-odt-convert would meet my needs >> anyway. It will have to be a multi-worksheet file, and I'll have to >> extract just one or two of the worksheets. The macro might be the >> way to go. > > I've made a bit more progress with this. I found a utility, > unoconv[1], which I can persuade to produce a tab-separated export of > the first worksheet of an ODS document. That much should work for my > needs -- I can reserve the first worksheet for the data to be > published, and put all the calculations in other sheets. > > I'm not sure how to import this as an org table. I found > org-table-import, but it seems that this must insert a table into a > buffer and then convert to org-table format in the buffer. I don't > know how to integrate that with babel. If I set ":exports results," > should I assume then that the code block should return a string > consisting of the org-formatted table? > > - Or, do I have to say ":exports none" and do some save-excursion > magic with moving the point to the right place before calling > org-table-import? (That's probably okay for this small-scale usage, > but it would be slicker to put a #+CALL in the right location.) > > - Or, do I have to write my own lisp function to format the table as a string? > > The goal is that I should be able to do C-c C-e h h from the org > document, and babel will run a short emacs-lisp block to invoke > unoconv (producing a CSV file on disk) and then insert the table under > the right heading. > > Thanks, > hjh > > [1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/unoconv I did not follow the thread, but reading ods files into org is easy, if you have access to R: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+name: firstsheet #+begin_src R :colnames yes library("ROpenOffice") read.ods("~/tmp/not.ods")[[1]] #+end_src #+results: firstsheet | first col | second col | third col | |-----------+------------+-----------| | 8 | 4 | 5 | | 1541 | 79 | 628 | #+name: secondsheet #+begin_src R :colnames yes library("ROpenOffice") read.ods("~/tmp/not.ods")[[2]] #+end_src #+results: secondsheet | dtr | egd | pdrn | |-------+-------+------| | ugn | apggh | gpd | | ulgnd | pugn | pdsg | --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Regards, Andreas