Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ TikZ error message

[mark999]

Hello, I've recently started trying to use TikZ, and I'm having trouble getting some of the examples in the TikZ manual to work. I'm using MiKTeX 2.8.

This example from p. 476 of the manual

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.5]
  \datavisualization [school book plot,smooth]
  data [format=function] {
    var x : interval [-2:2];
    func y = \value x*\value x;
  };
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

gives this error:

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! Undefined control sequence.
l.10   \datavisualization
                          [school book plot,smooth]
? 

However, this earlier example works:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture} [scale = 3]
  \clip (-0.1, -0.2) rectangle (1.1, 0.75);
  \draw (-1.5, 0) -- (1.5, 0);
  \draw (0, -1.5) -- (0, 1.5);
  \draw (0,0) circle (1cm);
  \draw[step = 0.5 cm, gray, very thin] (-1.4, -1.4) grid (1.4, 1.4);
  \draw (3mm, 0mm) arc (0:30:3mm);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

I don't know if I installed TikZ properly. I don't know how to manually install packages so I installed TikZ by running some examples from the TikZ examples page and letting the automatic installer install the required packages.

Thank you for any help you can give.

Mark

[gmedina]

Hi,

...This example from p. 476 of the manual

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.5]
  \datavisualization [school book plot,smooth]
  data [format=function] {
    var x : interval [-2:2];
    func y = \value x*\value x;
  };
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

I couldn't find that example on the PGF/TikZ manual. Where did you take it from?

[mark999]

That example is on page 476 of the version of the PGF/TikZ manual that I have saved on my computer. The manual I have is dated February 12, 2010, and has 726 pages. The manual you linked to is dated February 20, 2008, and has 560 pages.

However, I can't remember where I got the manual from.

[localghost]

Obviously you have read the manual of an unofficial CVS build [1]. But you are still using the latest stable version 2.00 of pgf/tikZ. This can't work unless you install also the corresponding package file.

[1] TeXample.net - TikZ and PGF builds


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[mark999]

Thank you very much Thorsten.