Re: Calling functions before loading the package
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg695] Re: Calling functions before loading the package
- From: forest at ananke.MIT.EDU (Chris E. Forest)
- Date: 10 Apr 1995 15:11:12 GMT
In article <3mabrd$l0r at news0.cybernetics.net> Gottfried Mayer-Kress
<gmk at pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu> writes:
> This is an old problem that keeps coming up for me:
>
> I want to use a function like "Mean" from the statistics package but I forget
> to load the package first. Now the dummy expression "Mean" obscures all
> operations. The only solution I am aware of is to kill the kernel and start all
> over again. There must be a more elegant solution...
>
> Thanks for the patience,
> ---
>
You can do this with the command:
Remove["Mean"];
Remove[] removes a symbol completely so that it is not recognized by Mma. I'm not
sure why the quotes are needed but I think they are. Try it with and without and
see the results.
This is something I did often as well.
--
Chris E. Forest
forest at ananke.mit.edu