Re: Missing information in Mathematica 6.0 Documentation
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- Subject: [mg80398] Re: Missing information in Mathematica 6.0 Documentation
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:04:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Owen, HL (Hywel) wrote: > In Mathematica 5.2 I knew I had to load a Graphics package to plot things like > Histograms. In Version 6.x, I assumed that a lot of these functions had > gone into the core, so didn't need to be loaded. > > For example, I tried just running: > Histogram[Table[RandomReal[{1-0.05,1+0.05}],{100}]] > > Nowhere in the documentation for 6.0 can I find that I now need this > command: > Needs["Histograms`"] > > Luckily I found an example on the Demonstrations website. > > Can the Mathematica Documentation team put this sort of stuff into the > documentation please? This stuff should be in the help files. Try looking up "standard package compatibility guide" in the Documention Center. -- Helen Read University of Vermont
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