Re: [O] Unit conversions and symbolic mathematics with Babel
die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes: Hello Org, for some engineering most often I need estimations with unit conversions, Emacs Calc is perfect for this. When it comes to reporting and documentation I'd like to do it with org-mode, of course. For numerical stuff and visualisation purposes I'm using already R and TikZ. But for unit conversions and symbolic maths I'm in a bind when trying to do this with free programs. - R :: Do you have experience with a units packages under the R-project? What I've seen so far is not so reassuring... - Maxima :: I think there is a nice and intuitive units package for maxima. But this would mean learning an additional tool and mentally switching between both within one document. - Calc :: I'd prefer to do it with Calc but the Babel interface is (yet?) restricted For example, I can define functions and do some unit conversions: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defmath cvun(a b) (math-convert-units a b)) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : calcFunc-cvun #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : 5e-3 m But what is missing is to assign variables within a source block #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm L2 := cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC Unfortunately this is not working. Do you have an idea how to implement this? For your information: Jay Belanger found a workaround #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defmath sett(a b) ; or any other name not identical to the applied lisp functions (set (nth 2 a) b)) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : calcFunc-sett #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 3 sett( L2, 3.14) L2 - L1 #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : 0.14 -- Dieter - Are you using (better) alternatives? Thanks for your insights Dieter -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany
[O] Unit conversions and symbolic mathematics with Babel
Hello Org, for some engineering most often I need estimations with unit conversions, Emacs Calc is perfect for this. When it comes to reporting and documentation I'd like to do it with org-mode, of course. For numerical stuff and visualisation purposes I'm using already R and TikZ. But for unit conversions and symbolic maths I'm in a bind when trying to do this with free programs. - R :: Do you have experience with a units packages under the R-project? What I've seen so far is not so reassuring... - Maxima :: I think there is a nice and intuitive units package for maxima. But this would mean learning an additional tool and mentally switching between both within one document. - Calc :: I'd prefer to do it with Calc but the Babel interface is (yet?) restricted For example, I can define functions and do some unit conversions: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defmath cvun(a b) (math-convert-units a b)) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : calcFunc-cvun #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : 5e-3 m But what is missing is to assign variables within a source block #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm L2 := cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC Unfortunately this is not working. Do you have an idea how to implement this? - Are you using (better) alternatives? Thanks for your insights Dieter -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [O] Unit conversions and symbolic mathematics with Babel
On 2014-09-03 08:54, die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes: But what is missing is to assign variables within a source block #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm L2 := cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC Unfortunately this is not working. Do you have an idea how to implement this? It seems that you could use block chaining. Here is an extract of some code I use to compute stats for my book keeping: #+name: monthly_average #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var starty=2014 :var startm=3 :var amount=100 (let* ((tm (decode-time)) (cmonth (nth 4 tm)) (cyear (nth 5 tm)) (nbmonths (+ (* 12 (- cyear starty)) (- cmonth startm (calc-eval round($ / $$, 2) nil amount nbmonths)) #+end_src #+name: ledger_average #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var b=Quotidien :var sy=2014 :var sm=3 :var sd=2014-03-01 :var p=Expenses: (let* ((per (format from %d-%d-01 to this month sy sm)) (a (org-sbe call_ledger (bucket (eval b)) (prefix (eval p)) (period (eval per) (org-sbe monthly_average (amount (eval a)) (starty (eval sy)) (startm (eval sm #+end_src The last line of the second block calls the first block to do its computation. The first block does not have to be in emacs-lisp, but I don't know calc well enough to do it directly in calc. Best, Alan -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] Unit conversions and symbolic mathematics with Babel
die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes: Hello Org, for some engineering most often I need estimations with unit conversions, Emacs Calc is perfect for this. When it comes to reporting and documentation I'd like to do it with org-mode, of course. For numerical stuff and visualisation purposes I'm using already R and TikZ. But for unit conversions and symbolic maths I'm in a bind when trying to do this with free programs. If you're on a linux of some sort, you probably have the units command line program installed. That's sort of the mother of all unit converters, as far as I'm concerned -- you could call out to it and return the results. What do you think? - R :: Do you have experience with a units packages under the R-project? What I've seen so far is not so reassuring... - Maxima :: I think there is a nice and intuitive units package for maxima. But this would mean learning an additional tool and mentally switching between both within one document. - Calc :: I'd prefer to do it with Calc but the Babel interface is (yet?) restricted For example, I can define functions and do some unit conversions: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defmath cvun(a b) (math-convert-units a b)) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : calcFunc-cvun #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : 5e-3 m But what is missing is to assign variables within a source block #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm L2 := cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC Unfortunately this is not working. Do you have an idea how to implement this? - Are you using (better) alternatives? Thanks for your insights Dieter
Re: [O] Unit conversions and symbolic mathematics with Babel
Hi, die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes: But what is missing is to assign variables within a source block #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = 5 mm L2 := cvun( L1, m) #+END_SRC Unfortunately this is not working. Do you have an idea how to implement this? - Are you using (better) alternatives? I like Python and in Python I like Pint for units. http://pint.readthedocs.org Below is an example org document that should run and shows a couple ways to use snippets of Pint code to do unit conversion. Not shown but Pint Quantity objects support arithmetic so are useful for carrying units through some calculation. For assigning to variables - presumably for use in later blocks - maybe you can investigate using the :session header argument to source blocks. Have fun, -Brett. One way to install Pint is: #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results silent pip install --user pint #+END_SRC Here is an example: #+name: uconv #+header: :var val=10m :var unit=inch #+BEGIN_SRC python import pint units = pint.UnitRegistry() return units.Quantity(val).to(unit) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: uconv : 393.700787402 inch Now call =uconv= do to some other conversion: #+call: uconv(2.54cm,inch) #+RESULTS: : 1.0 inch pgpGnSjfoKUX4.pgp Description: PGP signature
