Dear all,
I work with (relatively) large data tables and appreciate gnumeric for its
stability and speed. I need some advice concerning the use of gnumeric and the
function transpose. I have used transpose successfully on small datasets.
Problem :
I have a matrix size ca 12345678x9 (ca 10^8
You would need a spreadsheet with 12345678 columns to store that.
That's a no-go. We max out at 16384. While you could change that
in the source code and recompile, you will hit this and related problems:
if (GNM_MAX_COLS 364238) {
/* Oh, yeah? */
g_warning (_(This is a
save as text, transpose from the linux command line, re-import to your
spreadsheet. This way you exploit best your machine's hardware.
use the attached transpose code if you wish
cat text | tr '\011' ' ' | ./transpose ' ' text.trans (to transpose
tab-delimited text file )
runs right away;
Dear Morten and all,
Thanks for the file and the advice.
Thoughts about Gnumeric :
Why are there different max rows and max column?
Why a max at all? And not limited by machine mem?
I need a lot of both, and seen from a technical perspective, today
there are numerous applications that produce
Why a max at all?
There are issues with the language used for expressions. When the column
number gets high enough, there will be ambiguities such as whether TRUE
is a column name or a constant; LOG2 might be a function or it might be a
cell name; etc. I am not sure all of these are well
