Questions on Mathematica packages, which are self-contained bundles of Mathematica code that add new functions and other functionality.
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Listing the functions defined in a package
Assume that I know a package's (Context?) name that is loaded. Now I want to list the functions defined in this package. How can I do it?
I remember that I found a way once, but I cannot re-find it. ...
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How to properly DumpSave & Get Global`s symbols inside packages while not touching Global context?
For efficiency reasons I prefer to use DumpSave instead of Save.
For ease of access I prefer to save symbols in ...
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Function to compute the probability of exactly one event occurring out of N independent events
Is there a built in function (or a function in one of the standard packages) that allows you to compute the probability of exactly one event occurring out of some known set of probabilities for N ...
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$InputFileName backwards compatibility
What would be a good replacement for $InputFileName (which has been added recently to Mathematica 8) to achieve backwards compatibility with let's say M6 and M7?
I ...
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Compile for deployment
Is there any way (other than the manual one) to grab all the functions a notebook uses from the different user-defined packages and putting everything into one file to deploy the code for e.g. CDF? I ...
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Differential geometry add-ons for Mathematica
I need a differential geometry tool for Mathematica. Is there any add-on?
Unfortunately, Mathematica does not include such functionality or I can not find it.
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How get Singular.m package to interact with Singular itself?
I've installed the package Singular.m by Kauers and Levandovskyy from http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/research/combinat/software/Singular/ as well as the Singular ...
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Using GRTensorM 1.2 in Mathematica 8.0
I am copying a post from 2009 that didn't get any reply on the Wolfram page, as I am experiencing a similar problem to this at the moment:
I was wondering if anyone here knows of a way to force 8.0 ...
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Automated testing for compatibility with older Mathematica versions
I have several packages which I actively develop and maintain. I try to stay up to date with new releases of Mathematica and usually update within a couple of months of a new version coming out. As a ...
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How do you get Weisstein’s Hyphenate package to run?
I've put Eric Weisstein's Hyphenate.m package in $UserBaseDirectory/Utilities; installed the requisite ...
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What is a “Paclet”?
I often see references to "paclets", for example the PacletManager` context, the PacletInfo.m file in some packages and next to ...
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How to distribute proprietary Mathematica code
If I want to make package-code completely unreadable, in a way that the end-user can only call my functions, but has no way to re-engineer my definitions, how would I do that?
I know I can use ...
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How to unload automatically loaded packages?
I know that this has been discussed here (How do I clear all user defined symbols?), but my case is somewhat different. How does one unload packages during runtime that were loaded with the start of ...
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How to make a parallel auto-generated .m package from Initialization cells?
according to the documentation at ref/InitializationCell,
When you first save a notebook that contains initialization cells, you have the option to make a ...
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3answers
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What is the purpose of tags like :Name:, :Context:, etc. in packages?
I noticed that all of the packages that come with Mathematica start with a header that is in a standard format. (See e.g. the header of NIntegrateUtilities` at the ...
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How to install packages?
This is always a problem when I distribute my packages to colleagues working on different platforms. I have my packages installed into a private directory and I autoload some of them when Mathematica ...
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Why is JLink loaded every time I start Mathematica?
When I start a Mathematica 8 session (either command line or with the notebook front end), I notice that there are several packages that have already been loaded for me (using ...
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1answer
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Future-proofing access to packed array tools
Most of the Mathematica users beyond beginner level will be aware of the phenomenon of Packed Arrays. The user-accessible functions related to packed arrays live in the ...
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Strategies for avoiding and handling shadowing
When dealing with namespaces in Mathematica (BeginPackage, $ContextPath ...) one is unavoidably confronted with the problem of ...
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3answers
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Custom package development: Basic steps
Every once in a while, I write a generic function that I use quite often for months to come. However, package development in Mathematica is not very well documented from what I can tell, and I was not ...
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What are recommended guidelines for developing packages?
This might be of general interest – I have different questions regarding naming conventions, contexts, subcontexts, shadowing, etc., but I do feel that they are closely related, thus I don't really ...
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How safe is Encode?
How safe is an encoded package (using locked, etc)?
If I don't specify a personal key, I understand that the encoding key must be somewhere in the Mathematica program itself, and so it is not a ...
