Re: Polar Plots don't seem to work
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- Subject: [mg56515] Re: [mg56498] Polar Plots don't seem to work
- From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts at aapt.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:40:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Peter,
> 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?
Searching for PolarPlot in the online help (Master index) shows you (me?)
that the program is part of Graphics`Graphics so you need to load this
first.
Needs["Graphics`Graphics`"]
PolarPlot[Sin[t], {t, 0, 2*\[Pi]}]
works fine.
Perhaps your installation is broken?
Regards,
Dave.