Re: How do you set up third party (or your own) packages?
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- Subject: [mg79684] Re: [mg79607] How do you set up third party (or your own) packages?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 05:17:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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The package should go into a folder named MathWorld within your
Applications folder. And you should load it with:
<<MathWorld`PlaneGeometry`
Notice the terminal back-quote!
Daniel Flatin wrote:
> I am asking this question in all humility on the theory that there is
> no stupid question in this forum. My apologies if this is not the case:
>
> How do I use third party packages, or my own for that matter? For a
> specific case, I have downloaded some files from mathworld.wolfram.com
> and the set of version 6 MathWorldPackages. I want to load
> PlaneGeometry.m which in turn has a dependency on
> KimberlingCoordinates.m. In my effort to successfully execute the line:
>
> << MathWorld`PlaneGeometry
>
> I have tried putting selected packages in
> ~/Libraries/Mathematica/Applications. I have tried modifying $Path using
>
> AppendTo[$Path, =E2=80=A8 ToFileName[{$HomeDirectory, "Documents",
> "MathematicaFiles", "MathWorld", =E2=80=A8 "MathWorldPackages"}]]
>
> Neither solution works. The only thing that has proven to work is using
> Get[] with the full path name to the file, but this isn't the standard
> approach. What doesn't seem to be working for me is adding the
> appropriate path to the list of search paths Mathematica uses,
> presumably $Path.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dan
>
>
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