datatool – Tools to load and manipulate data
The bundle provides six packages:
– datatool.sty: databases may be created using LaTeX
commands or by importing external files; they may be sorted
numerically or alphabetically; repetitive operations (such as mail
merging) may be performed on each row of a database, subject to
conditions to exclude particular rows; commands are provided to
examine database elements, and to convert formats (for example, to
convert a numeric element to a format compatible with the
fp package;
– datapie.sty: a database may be represented as a pie
chart; flexible options allow colouring of the chart, and
annotation hooks are available;
– dataplot.sty: a database may be represented as a
2-dimensional scatter or line plot; flexible options control of
the plot's overall appearance, and of legends and other extra
information;
– databar.sty: a database may be represented as a bar
chart; overall appearance, colouring and annotation are
controllable;
– databib.sty: a bibliography may be loaded into a
datatool database, and manipulated there before being printed
(this permits a LaTeX-based route to printing bibliographies in
formats for which no BibTeX style is available); and
– person.sty: provides support for displaying a
person’s name and pronoun in a document, thus avoiding
cumbersome use of “he/she”, etc.
The drawing packages make use of PGF/TikZ
for their output.
The bundle replaces and supersedes the author’s
csvtools bundle.
| CTAN path | /macros/latex/contrib/datatool |
|---|---|
| Documentation |
Readme User guide Package documentation Package documentation |
| Version | 2.13 |
| License | The LaTeX Project Public License |
| Copyright | 2009 Nicola Talbot |
| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot |
| Contained in | TeXLive as datatool |
| MiKTeX as datatool | |
| Topics |
importing data into documents visualisation of data sets |
