Say that I got a package Foo and want my package to include some methods especially for handling DataFrames, and plots from Plots and Gadfly. To do this, I could define something like module Foo import DataFrames import Gadfly import Plots foo(x::DataFrames.DataFrame) = DataFrames.first(x, 5) fo…

Define methods for packages without importing

rdeits February 15, 2021, 10:01pm 2

Check out https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Requires.jl which should do what you’re looking for.

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