RE: Re: Missing information in Mathematica 6.0 Documentation
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- Subject: [mg80448] RE: [mg80398] Re: Missing information in Mathematica 6.0 Documentation
- From: "Owen, HL \(Hywel\)" <h.l.owen at dl.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:55:36 -0400 (EDT)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Helen Read [mailto:hpr at together.net] > Sent: 21 August 2007 10:05 > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg80398] Re: Missing information in Mathematica 6.0 > Documentation > > 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 > Thanks for the pointer, but of course putting the information there is wrong. Imagine I'm a new user of Mathematica 6.0 - I've never used any other version. I want to do a histogram, so I type Histogram and ask for help. There is no information on the help file that lets me run the function - it just looks like it doesn't work properly. Hywel