Installation
Installing the Economics Pack for Mathematica 7.0.0
This provides a short guide for installing the Economics Pack. Read Install.nb
for key information on installation and troubleshooting.
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Download this *.zip file: TheEconomicsPack.zip
(ca 7.2 MB):
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Unpack to your Mathematica $UserBaseDirectory in its \Applications\
subdirectory. This creates the ...\Applications\Economics directory
and its subdirectories (ca 27 MB).
After expanding, start up Mathematica, go to the Help menu, click
on Documentation Center, go the the bottom left corner and click
on the AddOns and Packages link. The pack should appear there and
clicking on it includes the guide and index into your help browser. This
is the User Guide in digital form similar to the User Guide book in printed
form. Read the chapter "Getting started" in this User Guide for more details.
Properly installed, you can call the TheEconomicsPack
palette from
the palette menu. This will give further assistence on using the Pack.
Properly installed, you can start the Pack by having Mathematica
evaluate Needs["Economics`Pack`"].
The Pack will ask for your password. You only need it once. Henceforth
it will be read from a small Password.txt file in the Economics directory.
To get your password, email cool@dataweb.nl, and you will receive your
password by reply email. Send me: (a) proof of your payment and (b) your
Mathematica
Licence number $LicenseID or your machine number $MachineID. If you send
your $LicenseID then you can use the Pack with your copy of Mathematica.
Holders of a single user licence for the Economics Pack on a network machine,
with a Mathematica Network $LicenseID, will have to send in their
$MachineID.
Your $LicenseID and $MachineID can be found by evaluating these symbols
in Mathematica,
which can be done without the Economics Pack installed.
Notes:
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Proof of payment can come e.g. from the bank or the reseller.
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In the past $InstallationDirectory was used but now it is $UserBaseDirectory.
Above zip only works for $UserBaseDirectory. When you unpack elsewhere,
you can also copy and paste the
Economics directory to that location.
If you put the Pack elsewhere then it likely will not work.
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Network operators who want to install the Pack in $InstallationDirectory
must contact me for a different version.
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Though Mathematica can read packages and notebooks independently
from various operating systems, there still is the issue of transferring
from one system to the other. However, modern expanders can handle the
*.zip format. Unix and Mac users must use unzip -aa TheEconomicsPack.zip
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See the Horror Cabinet of things that
can go wrong.
Back to The Economics Pack.
http://www.dataweb.nl/~cool