[sage-support] Re: Saving/printing worksheets in 'windows OS
I tried your approach--and Firefox has never liked the suggested 'numerical' URLs that have been mentioned in SAGE releases. BUT--I rediscovered the online use of SAGE at http://www.sagenb.org. I had apparently tried it out before I started practicing with SAGE on my computer, because it had an old worksheet of mine sitting there. I was able to start a new worksheet, copy and paste the worksheet elements from Virt. Box to the online sheet, and everything works fine (actually better--the online version is using 4.4.1, and I can't get it put together on my windows setup). So--everything works quite well. I can print the worksheet out in PDF form if I want, and can actually use SAGE for something other than practice. Thanks. Tim Paysen On May 18, 1:28 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: On 05/18/2010 12:27 PM, Timothy Paysen wrote: I cannot find a way to generate of 'hard copy' or file copy of a worksheet using Sage in the VirtualBox machine. The 'shared file' approach mentioned in the VirtualBox software doesn't even do what it says--it shares a file under the Sage 'home'--which doesn't actually exits in the Window structure (I'm using Windows 7). Is there any way of doing this? Am I missing something. (I'm working through the 'Notebook' facility on Mozilla Firefox) In a worksheet, on the left, just above the first cell, there is a dropdown select box with the word File written in it. Click on that and choose Save worksheet to a file... Is that what you are looking for? No. That would save the file inside the virtual machine. The best solution currently for this user, is to access the VM from Firefox run from Microsoft Windows. The address will be something likehttp://192.168.1.123or something. It appears in a popup dialog or window... Thanks, Jason -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
[sage-support] Re: Are there statisticians using Sage?
As a Research Forester/Statistician I have had to deal with sophisticated math issues for my whole career (and even more so now that I am retired (and still working). My/our work was limited by the lack of 'affordable' math packages available to use. You'd be amazed at what an applied statistician (working in a substantive field) has to do with sophisticated math issues. We work with population dynamics, physics of wildland fire (which is not understood yet) measuring heat wavelets, growth and yield, and just systems issues in general. Since we and applied mathematical statisticians must attack the real world (it never fits into a cooperative system of equations), we need the sophistication of packages like SAGE. Remember: our job is to USE sophisticated mathematics to get something else done. Out job is not to fool around with math--we have to use it (we aren't paid for, nor have the time for, investigation the wonders of mathematics-- even though we may like its logic, etc.) Tim Paysen On May 20, 7:56 am, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: I gave a talk last night at the London Open Solaris User Group (LOSUG) with the title Porting Sage open source mathematics software to OpenSolaris. I've stuck a copy of the presentation at http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/talks/Sage-LOSUG-19-5-20... The talk generated quite a bit of interest - I lost count of the number of questions. Someone emailed me today, to ask about statisticians using Sage. I won't forward his message, since I don't have his permission to do so, but the relevant bit is: --- I had one specific question that I didn't think was of general interest: I work in a statistics research unit and I had already downloaded (your?) solaris-10 sparc build before the talk. I wanted to ask, do you think sage offers a statistician (as opposed to a mathematician)? Perhaps I should ask if you know of any statisticians already using sage? I'm sure there are people far better placed to answer that question than me. Dave -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
[sage-support] Re: Old Notebook retrieval
(Yes.) I have both 4.2.1 and 4.3 in VirtualBox. I have a couple of worksheets (only one is important) in 4.2.1, and am trying to get them to 4.3. I have used the save-to-zip approach, as per instructions, and pulled it into 4.3. What I get is an ancient trial worksheet that I used to test 4.2.1 on. This happens repeatedly ( ie- filename.zip (1)(2)... and filename.zip(3)--so the files are new, but their content is old. TP On Jan 28, 8:51 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: TimP wrote: This is apparently an old subject. My new 4.3 version of SAGE can not open current copies of the notebooks I have in the earlier version of SAGE (4.2.1). The old version seems unable to download current editions of the notebook's worksheets. Or--the new version can't find them. I believe its the former. I don't know how to get at the stored files. I just realized that the VirtualBox is a Linux-like thing, and (being new to bash, etc) I was able to find my way around directories--and found the zip files. But that doesn't help me get anything done (I don't even know how to open a zip file in the shell-- nor would I know what to do with it once I did. The bash directories, of course, don't appear anywhere in my Windows directories. I'm probably missing something somewhere in a tutorial or two - -but are there any words of advise out there. (I just tried the terminal version of sage, and like it--but don't know if work can be saved from it.) What exactly is your situation? Are you running an old copy (pre-4.2.1) in VirtualBox, and 4.3 in VirtualBox, and want to get your notebook to move over to the new version? Or are you uploading individual worksheets to the 4.3 version in VirtualBox? Is there a specific worksheet that is causing the problem that you can post? Thanks, Jason -- Jason Grout- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
