# ListPolarPlot does not allow PolarAxes->True or PolarGridLines->True? [closed]

I am running the personal version of Mathematica 9 on a MacBook Air with OS 10.10.5.

When I try to activate PolarAxes->True and/or PolarGridLines -> True, I get pages of error messages. This occurs even when I try to replicate existing working examples from this site, such as:

ListPolarPlot not showing full plot range even with PlotRange -> All

Here is an example of my problem:

The following code creates data for a circle in polar coordinates, and correctly plots it using ListPolarPlot.

dataPoints = 100;
circleData = Table[{counter // N, 0.5}, {counter, 0, 2*Pi, 2*Pi/dataPoints}];
ListPolarPlot[circleData, Joined -> True]


However, when I try to set PolarAxes->True

ListPolarPlot[circleData, Joined -> True, PolarAxes -> True]


I just get error messages.

Wolfram documentation for ListPolarPlot says:

ListPolarPlot has the same options as ListPlot, with the following changes:

PolarAxes->False and PolarGridLines->None

Does that mean I cannot set either of those options to other values? That seems to contradict working examples I have seen on this site.

I can obviously write my own code to mimic what PolarAxes and PolarGridLines do, but I am sure that is not the best solution.

(I can print the error messages if that would be helpful. The relevant terms that I see are DrawPolarAxes and DrawPolarAxesDump. )

• It works correctly here, as it did for belisarius. The statement listing PolarAxes -> False and PolarGridLines -> None is just giving the default values of those options, not stating that other possibilities are not allowed. Are you using 9.0.0 or 9.0.1? It could be a bug in the former. – Oleksandr R. Dec 14 '15 at 2:14
• This answer also shows that PolarAxes -> True works in ListPolarPlot. – m_goldberg Dec 14 '15 at 6:28
• I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the problem the user is experiencing can not be reproduced by others. – m_goldberg Dec 14 '15 at 6:29