Chapter 10. The Standard Library and Packages
In this final chapter of our mini tour on Julia, we look anew at the standard library and explore the ever-growing ecosystem of packages for Julia. We will discuss the following topics:
- Digging deeper into the standard library
- Julia's package manager
- Publishing a package
- Graphics in Julia
- Using Gadfly on data
Digging deeper into the standard library
The standard library is written in Julia and comprises of a very broad range of functionalities: from regular expressions, working with dates and times (in v 0.4), a package manager, internationalization and Unicode, linear algebra, complex numbers, specialized mathematical functions, statistics, I/O and networking, Fast Fourier Transformations (FFT), parallel ...
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