Re: Polar Plots don't seem to work
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- Subject: [mg56530] Re: Polar Plots don't seem to work
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at arcor.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:40:22 -0400 (EDT)
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Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> I'm on Linux using Mathematica 5.0.1.0.
>
> When I try to make a polar plot, no graphics is shown. This is what I see:
>
>
> In[1]:= PolarPlot[Sin[t], {t, 0, 2*\[Pi]}]
>
> Out[1]= PolarPlot[Sin[t],{t,0,2 \[Pi]}]
>
>
> Mathematica simply repeats what I told it without displaying a graphic. Even the
> polar plot in the help browser topic doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas why Mathematica isn't showing me polar plots? Do I need to explicitly
> display something?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
<<Graphics`Graphics`
PolarPlot[Sin[t],{t,0,2*\[Pi]}]
works great.
Have you got the standard packages installed?
--
Peter Pein
Berlin