I'm doing a very simple max function to find the max between 2 cells, it works on the first few lines, but doesn't work the rest of the way down.
You'll see in the pic the max functions are in column R and only find the max between cells in column P and Q.
What you can't see is Column P is data input manually, while column Q references a different cell that contains a formula.
Why is this not working? thanks
The issue with your ranges is that the values in range Q1:Q are NOT numbers.
Reading the official page about the MAX function:
Each value argument must be a cell, a number, or a range containing numbers. Cells without numbers or ranges are ignored. Entering text values will cause MAX to return the #VALUE! error. To allow text values, use MAXA.
Because they are not numbers they are considered as 0.
So, when using =max(P2,Q2) the result appears realistic.
But not always.
Do test your values using =ISNUMBER()
You can correct the formulas by formatting values as numbers.
Just using a value alone didn't work for me. Wrapping my range in an arrayformula with a nested value formula worked. For example:
=max(ArrayFormula((value($R2:$R))))
This is probably because my entire column is calculated using formulas. I had to apply the value formula to the entire array.
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Here is the sample workbook: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FqkXO8sdpeP9GPerdg8o2zcSiTV7o8gA-07iBvqw4Yw/edit#gid=1252102463
I'm working off the size tab but I have a "workingsize" tab that someone helped me with. The formulas in that sheet are working great.
ColN in Size corresponds to ColR in WorkingSize. In the absence of context, I'm looking for those two outputs to be identical and can't figure out how to get the formulas to behave correctly.
For more context on Size:
Eventually, the data entered into the red section will exist on an entirely different sheet. I'm good at referencing between sheets but just wanted everyone to be aware. This is the data I'm having trouble with.
in K6 & below, you enter in a type of pizza. right now it's free text but ultimately, it will be a drop down from the range A2:A. That range also matches the headers in F3:H3. In theory, as new items are added to the A2 range, new columns will appear here.
ColL is a number - it represents a dough ball weight.
ColM is identifying which column from the table to be searching against.
ColN then takes the weight, rounds it to the nearest value in the corresponding col for type, and then outputs the corresponding size.
ColN in Size is my attempt to take the formulas from colR in workingsize and turn them into an array.
You can try with XLOOKUP. With INDEX and XMATCH you narrow the weightes by the match on the name of the column. Then with MAP you can convert it in an array. Change the last -1 to 1 if you want to round it up instead of down:
=MAP(K6:K,L6:L,LAMBDA(type,wt,IF(wt="","",XLOOKUP(wt,INDEX(E4:H,,XMATCH(type,E3:H3)),D4:D,,-1))))
PS: I deleted the column of key value, since it was not necessary
UPDATE:
To find closest value, you can use this: it sorts D column by the absolute value of the difference between the corresponding column and the weight. SORTN and the first 1 returns only the first value, meaning the closest to the weight
=MAP(K6:K,L6:L,LAMBDA(type,wt,IF(wt="","",SORTN(D4:D,1,,BYROW(INDEX(E4:H,,XMATCH(type,E3:H3)),LAMBDA(d,ABS(wt-d))),1))))
Let me know!
I have used this formula so many times and cannot get it to work for values less than zero
Formula: =ArrayFormula(iferror(index(PayrollSummary!A:A,small(if(PayrollSummary!I:I<0,row(PayrollSummary!I:I)),row(4:4))),""))
I use this to find the text of one column based on the value of another. It is the if(PayrollSummary!I:I<0 that is not working, if I change it to less than 1 I get values from 0-1, but not the ones less than 0.
I have checked the formatting on the column, tried number, financial, custom number formats. I have put the PayrollSummary!I:I within VALUE() I have tried LTE(), it will not give be the negative numbers.
try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(INDEX(PayrollSummary!A:A, SMALL(
IF(PayrollSummary!I:I*1<0, ROW(PayrollSummary!I:I)), ROW(4:4))), ))
I want to iterate over an array of cells, in this case B5:B32, and keep the values that are equal to some reference text in a new array.
However, SPLIT nowadays accepts arrays as inputs. That means that if I use the array notation of "B5:B32" within ARRAYFORMULA or FILTER, it treats it as a range, rather than the array over which we iterate one cell at a time.
Is there a way to ensure that a particular range is the range over which we iterate, rather than the range given at once as an input?
What I considered was using alternative formulations of a cell, using INDEX(ROW(B5), COLUMN(B5)) but ROW and COLUMN also accept array values, so I'm out of ideas on how to proceed.
Example code:
ARRAYFORMULA(
INDEX(
SPLIT(B5:B32, " ", 1), 1
) = "Some text here"
)
Example sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H8vQqD5DFxIS-d_nBxpuwoRH34WfKIYGP9xKKLvCFkA/edit?usp=sharing
Note: In the example sheet, I can get to my desired answer if I create separate columns containing the results of the SPLIT formula. This way, I first do the desired SPLITS, and then take the values I need from that output by specifying the correct range.
Is there a way to do this without first creating an output and then taking a cell range as an input to FILTER or other similar functions?
For example in cell C35 I've already gotten the desired SPLIT and FILTER done in one go, but I'd still need to find a way to sum up the values of the first character of the second column. Doing this requires that I take the LEFT value of the second column, but for that I need to output the results and continue in a new cell. Is there a way to avoid this?
Ralph, I'm not sure if your sample sheet really reflects what you are trying to end up with, since, for example, I assume you are likely to want the total of the hours per area.
In any case, this formula extracts all of the areas, and the hours worked, and is then easy to do further calculations with.
=ArrayFormula({REGEXEXTRACT({C5:C9;D5:D9;E5:E9;F5:F9;G5:G9;H5:H9},"(.*) \d"),
VALUE(REGEXEXTRACT({C5:C9;D5:D9;E5:E9;F5:F9;G5:G9;H5:H9}," (\d+)hrs"))})
Try that in cell E13, to see the output.
The first REGEXEXTRACT pulls out all the text in front of the first space and number, and the second pulls out all the digits in a string of " #hr" in each cell. These criteria could be modified, if necessary, depending on your actual requirements. Note that it requires the use of VALUE, to convert the hours from text to numeric values, since REGEXEXTRACT produces text (string) results.
It involved concatenating your multiple data columns into one long column of data, to make it simpler to process all the cells in the same way.
This next formula will give you a sum, for whatever matching room/task you type into B6, as an example.
=ArrayFormula(QUERY({REGEXEXTRACT({C5:C9;D5:D9;E5:E9;F5:F9;G5:G9;H5:H9},"(.*) \d"),
VALUE(REGEXEXTRACT({C5:C9;D5:D9;E5:E9;F5:F9;G5:G9;H5:H9}," (\d+)hrs"))},
"select Col1, sum(Col2) where Col1='"&B6&"' group by Col1 label sum(Col2) '' ",0))
I will also answer my own question given what I know from kirkg13's answer and other sources.
Short answer: no, there isn't. If you want to do really convoluted computations with particular cell values, there are a few options and tips:
Script your own functions. You can expand INDEX to accept array inputs and thereby you can select any set of values from an array without outputting it first. Example that doesn't use REGEXMATCH and QUERY to get the SUM of hours in the question's example data set: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NljC-pK_Y4iYwNCWgum8B4NJioyNJKYZ86BsUX6R27Y/edit?usp=sharing.
Use QUERY. This makes your formula more convoluted quite quickly, but is still a readable and universally applicable method of selecting data, for example particular columns. In the question's initial example, QUERY can retrieve only the second column just like an adapted INDEX function would.
Format your input data more effectively. The more easily you can get numbers from your input, the less you have to obfuscate your code with REGEXMATCHES and QUERY's to do computations. Doing a SUM over a RANGE is a lot more compact of a formula than doing a VALUE of a LEFT of a QUERY of an ARRAYFORMULA of a SPLIT of a FILTER. Of course, this will depend on where you get your inputs from and if you have any say in this.
Also, depending on how many queries you will run on a given data set, it may actually be desirable to split up the formula into separate parts and output partial results to keep the code from becoming an amalgamation of 12 different queries and formulas. If the results don't need to be viewed by people, you can always choose to hide specific columns and rows.
I have a Google Sheet, and I'm trying to see if it's possible to get a consecutive count outputted in a third column based on the values of two other columns.
My columns are:
Column A: Will have a handful of text values that are "grouped" together. Likely around 30 of the same value, until it changes to another value. In the image above, these are text1, and text2.
Column B: Will have one of 3 values assigned to each value in column A. In the image above, these are id1, id2, id3.
Column C: Will output a consecutive count based on the values of the first two columns. My hope is that if there are multiple ID1,ID2 in consecutive order, they'll repeat that first +1 value; while ID3 is always plus 1 to the count. This is what I am trying to show in column C in the layout image above.
I've hit a wall with trying to accomplish this with various COUNTIF iterations.
Thanks for any help, or any better ideas to accomplish something similar.
(I'm hoping for a formula, but open to being pointed into a direction for a script if that's the only way).
You can try following formula:
=IF(A2=A1;IF(OR(B2="id3";B2<>B1);C1+1;C1);1)
It is also possible to do this as an array formula. I used offset ranges for column B in the first Countifs to check for a change in value but this made it a little awkward to get equal-sized arrays:
=ArrayFormula(if(A2:A="","",
countifs({"";B2:B}<>{B2:B;""},true,{A2:A;""},A2:A,row(A:A),"<"&row(A2:A),{B2:B;""},"<>id3")+
countifs(A2:A,A2:A,row(A2:A),"<="&row(A2:A),B2:B,"=id3")
))
So I've got the following formula to correlate two ranges:
=ROUND(CORREL(ARRAYFORMULA(MMULT('E0:Sample'!$D$2:$AY,TRANSPOSE(SIGN(COLUMN(('E0:Sample'!$D$2:$AY)))))),FILTER(OFFSET('E0:Sample'!$D$2:$D,0,ROW()-2),NOT(ISBLANK(OFFSET('E0:Sample'!$D$2:$D,0,ROW()-2))))),3)
The formula works fine, as long as there are no blanks in 'E0:Sample'!$D$2:$AY. Otherwise the error message Function MMULT parameter 1 expects number values. But '' is a empty and cannot be coerced to a number. is thrown.
I´ve tried to filter() for empty rows, but the filter-function won't work since the ranges differ.
How do I solve this without the best way?
Thanks!
It's difficult to test your complete formula, but I did a test on a mini-version of matrix multiply and it seems that you can use the N function the same way as you can in Excel. Here is my mini-test:-
=ArrayFormula(MMULT(n(B1:G1),n(A1:A6)))
where both ranges contain a mix of numbers, alphas and blanks. Non-numeric cells are treated as zeroes.
Reference
I'm not totally clear about the context for this - I think you're trying to get the row sums from your large 2D array by using the mmult - if this is correct I think my answer is OK because the blanks would contribute nothing to the sums. Since CORREL ignores blanks in the second range, you don't need to filter at all?
I did eventually set up some test data for your formula, and my formula ended up like this:-
=ROUND(CORREL(ARRAYFORMULA(MMULT(n('E0:Sample'!$D$2:$AY),TRANSPOSE(SIGN(COLUMN(('E0:Sample'!$D$2:$AY)))))),OFFSET('E0:Sample'!$D$2:$D,0,ROW()-2)),3)