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Re: Problem in loading packages in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg70602] Re: Problem in loading packages in Mathematica
• From: dimmechan at yahoo.com
• Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:13:36 -0400 (EDT)
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Amit you did a very common mistake for beginners

You use the ( ' ) key  instead of the correct (`) key!

Try the following command and everything is ok.

<< Statistics`NormalDistribution`

That is the two singles quotes used here are "back quotes"
usually found on the same key with ~.
They are NOT the single quotes found on the double-quote key.

Note that the back-quote character is used to separate the package
from the directory name, and at the end in place of .m.

See the following link for more information.

http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/section-2.7.9

Following also one of the invaluable suggestions of David Park
I recomend you to use the following command in order to load the
package.

Needs["Statistics'NormalDistribution`"]

In this way you avoid conflicts of possible reloading of the package.

Regards
Dimitris


amitsoni.1984 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the following command to load a package in Mathematica:
> << Statistics'NormalDistribution'
>
> but it gives the following error:
> Get::noopen:Cannot open Statistics. More
>
> Can someone tell me what is the problem? Do I have to download this
> package from somewhere or is it inbuilt in Mathematica?
> 
> Thanks
> Amit