Re: Error message need explaination in english
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg78653] Re: Error message need explaination in english
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 03:23:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
- References: <f6if0b$428$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
may be that
SetAttributes[metareplace, HoldFirst]
help you
Regards
Jens
JGBoone at gmail.com wrote:
> So i put in these commands
>
> Q=Range[10];
> size[group_]=Length[group];
> metareplace[group_] := (group[[Random[Integer, {1, size[group]}]]] =
> hubl[metacommunity]);
> (*takes random element of community size and replaces it with random
> element of metacommunity by way of the function hubl[group_]*)
> metareplace[Q]
>
>
> and get this error message
>
> Set::setps: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10} in assignment of part is
> not a symbol
>
> looking at the help menu only confuses me further. can anyone tell me
> in layman's terms what the messages means?
> thanks
>
>