Re: Polar Plots don't seem to work
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- Subject: [mg56572] Re: Polar Plots don't seem to work
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at arcor.de>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:20:42 -0400 (EDT)
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David Bailey wrote:
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
>>I'm on Linux using Mathematica 5.0.1.0.
>>
>>When I try to make a polar plot, no graphics is shown. This is what I see:
>>
>>
>> In[1]:= PolarPlot[Sin[t], {t, 0, 2*\[Pi]}]
>>
>> Out[1]= PolarPlot[Sin[t],{t,0,2 \[Pi]}]
>>
>>
>>Mathematica simply repeats what I told it without displaying a graphic. Even the
>>polar plot in the help browser topic doesn't work.
>>
>>Any ideas why Mathematica isn't showing me polar plots? Do I need to explicitly
>>display something?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Pete
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> PolarPlot belongs in an add-on package, you must load it before using it
> thus:
>
> <<Graphics`Graphics`
>
> Note: If you have already tried to use PolarPlot in the current session,
> then you must quit the kernel before loading the package.
even after loading the package, a Remove["Global`PolarPlot"]; should be
sufficient.
> David Bailey
> dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
>
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Peter Pein
Berlin