Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
On 2009-04-06, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel wrote: Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried. You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to copy-paste from R. The (=space) also can (or should be able to) act as a field separator (or not?). Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. But I don't see why the copy-paste does not work? I would expect this to be a feature in LyX. Perhaps under development?? You might ask for an extension of the customizable csv2lyx insert CSV data feature to work also as PasteSpecialCSV so you do not need to create and import a temporary CSV file. A quick workaround would be convert the spaces to tabs in your R output, to generate an empty table with M-x tabular-insert 7 9 (adjust column and row numbers) and paste the data there Günter
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous posting), but it didn't work. This does work, but it should be added that it is necessary to paste as plain text, otherwise the tabs are ignored.
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:17 +, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous posting), but it didn't work. This does work, but it should be added that it is necessary to paste as plain text, otherwise the tabs are ignored. Thank you Guenter. Nikos
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
On 2009-04-06, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel wrote: Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried. You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to copy-paste from R. The (=space) also can (or should be able to) act as a field separator (or not?). Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. But I don't see why the copy-paste does not work? I would expect this to be a feature in LyX. Perhaps under development?? You might ask for an extension of the customizable csv2lyx insert CSV data feature to work also as PasteSpecialCSV so you do not need to create and import a temporary CSV file. A quick workaround would be convert the spaces to tabs in your R output, to generate an empty table with M-x tabular-insert 7 9 (adjust column and row numbers) and paste the data there Günter
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous posting), but it didn't work. This does work, but it should be added that it is necessary to paste as plain text, otherwise the tabs are ignored.
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:17 +, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous posting), but it didn't work. This does work, but it should be added that it is necessary to paste as plain text, otherwise the tabs are ignored. Thank you Guenter. Nikos
Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data
On 2009-04-06, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel > wrote: >> Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? >> Siegfried. > You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to > copy-paste from R. The " " (=space) also can (or should be able to) act > as a "field separator" (or not?). Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. > But I don't see why the copy-paste does not work? I would expect this to > be a feature in LyX. Perhaps under development?? You might ask for an extension of the customizable csv2lyx "insert CSV data" feature to work also as "Paste>Special>CSV" so you do not need to create and import a temporary CSV file. A quick workaround would be convert the spaces to tabs in your R output, to generate an empty table with M-x tabular-insert 7 9 (adjust column and row numbers) and paste the data there Günter
Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data
Guenter Mildewrites: > Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The > space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous posting), but it didn't work. This does work, but it should be added that it is necessary to paste as "plain text," otherwise the tabs are ignored.
Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:17 +, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Guenter Mildewrites: > > Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The > > space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. > > Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. > I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see > my previous posting), but it didn't work. This does work, but > it should be added that it is necessary to paste > as "plain text," otherwise the tabs are ignored. Thank you Guenter. Nikos
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried.
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel wrote: Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried. You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to copy-paste from R. The (=space) also can (or should be able to) act as a field separator (or not?). But I don't see why the copy-paste does not work? I would expect this to be a feature in LyX. Perhaps under development?? Thanks, Nikos
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried.
Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel wrote: Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried. You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to copy-paste from R. The (=space) also can (or should be able to) act as a field separator (or not?). But I don't see why the copy-paste does not work? I would expect this to be a feature in LyX. Perhaps under development?? Thanks, Nikos
Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data
Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried.
Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel wrote: > Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? > Siegfried. You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to copy-paste from R. The " " (=space) also can (or should be able to) act as a "field separator" (or not?). But I don't see why the copy-paste does not work? I would expect this to be a feature in LyX. Perhaps under development?? Thanks, Nikos