Hello, Quazgar <quaz...@posteo.de> writes:
> As hinted on the manual http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-formulas.html > and written explicitly on a StackOverflow topic > http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/15185/cant-assign-to-hline-relative-reference, > the left hand side of table formulas currently cannot contain > references: > > The left-hand side of a column formula cannot be the name of column, > it must be the numeric column reference or $>. > > In examples like the following, this would be very convenient though: > > | Value 1 | Value 2 | Sum | > |---------+---------+-----| > | 1 | 1 | | > | 3 | 4 | | > |---------+---------+-----| > | Average | of sums | | > > #+TBLFM: @I$3..@II$3=$1+$2::$3=vmean(@I..@II) > > If I remember correctly, it used to work (I found a similar line in > org documents from June 2015). Is it possible to have this feature > (back), now officially? This feature was never introduced, at least in a correct implementation. At some point, there was something like it, but it was broken and was consequently removed. AFAIR, relative references using hlines (e.g., @I) is not well defined and is therefore difficult to implement. You may want to search the mailing list archives about it. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
