Re: 6.0 Standard Packages?, New Style Documentation?
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- Subject: [mg77459] Re: 6.0 Standard Packages?, New Style Documentation?
- From: Donald DuBois <donabc at comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 05:34:30 -0400 (EDT)
> 1) Is there anyplace in the documentation where one > can find all the > 'standard packages' listed together in one place like > they were in the 5.2 > Help Browser? > > 2) Is there anyplace in the documentation that tell > how to construct the new > style documentation, how to get a documentation style > sheet, where to put > the documentation, and how to make sure that users > have access to it? > > > -- > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > > > I would very much like to know the answer to Question 2 but can only help, perhaps, with Question 1. The following function will list all the packages in a single grid (thanks to Harry Chalkin, WRI, for this): Grid[Partition[ SetDirectory[ ToFileName[{$InstallationDirectory, "AddOns", "Packages"}]]; FileNames[], 2], Frame -> All] To get the function names in a Package define the following function: GetNames[pack_String] := (Needs[StringJoin[pack, "`"]]; Names[StringJoin[pack, "`*"]]) Example of use: GetNames["ANOVA"] results in: {"ANOVA", "Bonferroni", "CellMeans", "Duncan", "Dunnett", \ "PostTests", "StudentNewmanKeuls", "Tukey"} I have found it useful to go directly to some of the folders for documentation on a particular package. For instance, (on a Windows Ver. 6 machine), documentation (Guides and Tutorials) can be found on the StatisticalPlots Package at C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\6.0\Documentation\English\Packages\StatisticalPlots\Documentation\English The root folder for documentation on all the packages is at: C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\6.0\Documentation\English\Packages and then it's possible to go from there to a given package. There are no "Standard Packages" as such. They seem to fall into 4 categories: "Applications", "ExraPackages", "Legacy Packages" and "Packages". This structure shows up in the following path (Window machine, Ver. 6): C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\6.0\AddOns Regards, Don DuBois