Re: RE: Re: Missing information in Mathematica 6.0 Documentation
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- Subject: [mg80488] Re: [mg80448] RE: [mg80398] Re: Missing information in Mathematica 6.0 Documentation
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:16:23 -0400 (EDT)
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I have to agree with Owen. A newbie wouldn't know what a "package" is, how to "load" one, or even that they need to be loaded. Bobby On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:55:36 -0500, Owen, HL (Hywel) <h.l.owen at dl.ac.uk> wrote: > >> -----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 > > > > > > -- DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com