Re: [sage-support] Re: integral() error

2011-09-06 Thread robin hankin
Hello Justin thanks for this...I'm more familiar with the R help list, where there's a very heavy emphasis on not wasting bandwidth, and replies not much less terse than 'rtfm' are very common. So, I'm finding the more tolerant atmosphere in sage to take some getting used to! best wishes Robin

Re: [sage-support] Re: integral() error

2011-09-04 Thread Justin C. Walker
Hi, Robin, On Sep 4, 2011, at 16:10 , robin hankin wrote: > Hello Justin > > thanks for this. > > (I'm a linux user but currently getting to know macosx). If you use linux, you aren't that far from (command-line) Mac OS X. It's basically a BSD unix at that level. > $SAGE_ROOT was null, but

Re: [sage-support] Re: integral() error

2011-09-04 Thread robin hankin
Hello Justin thanks for this. (I'm a linux user but currently getting to know macosx). $SAGE_ROOT was null, but I can run it from the commandline by changing to Applications/Sage-4.7.1-OSX-64bit-10.6.app/Contents/Resources/sage/ and running ./sage. And the integral() command seems to work but I

Re: [sage-support] Re: integral() error

2011-09-04 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Sep 4, 2011, at 14:02 , robin hankin wrote: > Hi. > > thanks for this. > > @justin: how do I run sage from the command line? I use the > precompiled version and am unsure how commandline sage works. You open a Terminal window, first, and make sure that window has focus. Next, switch to

Re: [sage-support] Re: integral() error

2011-09-04 Thread robin hankin
Hi. thanks for this. @justin: how do I run sage from the command line? I use the precompiled version and am unsure how commandline sage works. @kcrisman: 'maxima_console()' appears to hang, giving message: ;;; Loading #P"/tmp/sage-mac-app/local/lib/ecl/sb-bsd-sockets.fas" ;;; Loading #P"/

[sage-support] Re: integral() error

2011-09-02 Thread kcrisman
On Sep 1, 11:19 pm, "Justin C. Walker" wrote: > On Sep 1, 2011, at 19:31 , robin hankin wrote: > > > Hi. > > > sage 4.7.1, macosx 10.6.8, firefox 5.0. > > > When I use the sage notebook the following happens: > > > var('x') > > integral(exp(x),x) > > > Traceback (click to the left of this block

[sage-support] Re: integral() error

2011-09-01 Thread Maarten Derickx
I have OS X 10.6.8 also but I don't have the same version of sage installed currently as you (I have sage 4.7.2.alpha2 and 4.6.1) and I don't seem to be able to replicate your error in both the older and the newer install. I don't have firefox so could you please try it from the command line (i.