Re: Statistics functions in packages
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- Subject: [mg26849] Re: Statistics functions in packages
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:13:26 -0500 (EST)
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Tom, There is a good treatment of this problem, with an example using the Statistics packages, in HelpBrowser > Add-ons > Standard Packages > Appendix: How Mathematica ... > Advanced Topic: Basing new packages ... -- Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565 "Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> wrote in message news:94m9ng$3og at smc.vnet.net... > Hello everyone! > > I really hope someone can help me with this question!! > > I have written a few packages that needed the functionality of other > packages.... > > So far, I haven't had any trouble, I include the name of the package I want > to use in the BeginPackage line and it has worked fine.... > > I am totally baffled in that I am now using (or trying to) some Statistics > functions in my own package and I can't get them to work. I am getting > error message that lead me to believe that I am not asking to use the > functions in the proper way, but I have tried various things with no > success. Here is an example of the error I am getting.... > > > q731`Private`NormalDistribution[70, 12] > > Here is something I read in the Help files that might be related to my > trouble.... > > Most users do not need to be aware of them, but if you are writing your own > packages using functions defined by a Statistics package, it is wise to > check whether symbols you need are introduced via one of the Common > packages. > > If anyone has any advice for me, I would appreciate it. > > Tom De Vries > >