How to let a function return some numerical values and a graph simutaneously?

General Usage
1

For example:

using UnicodePlots

function func(n)
    r = randn(n)
    s = sum(r)
    hist = histogram(r, nbins=10, closed=:left)
    r, s, hist
end

If I call this function in the REPL, it returns:

julia> func(10)
([1.5369990699727945, -0.7353913882824294, -0.8568141947726255, 1.145149668937184, 0.3340140471550356, 1.2364301576354533, 1.8932925331172032, 0.05768487009000112, -0.2116877502737839, 0.4638080551886433], 4.863485068767476,                 ┌                                        ┐
   [-1.0, -0.5) ┤████████████████████████▋ 2
   [-0.5,  0.0) ┤████████████▍ 1
   [ 0.0,  0.5) ┤█████████████████████████████████████  3
   [ 0.5,  1.0) ┤  0
   [ 1.0,  1.5) ┤████████████████████████▋ 2
   [ 1.5,  2.0) ┤████████████████████████▋ 2
                └                                        ┘
                                 Frequency                 )

As seen, the histogram is returned as an element of the tuple, which makes it display sickly. Is there any good solutions to this issue? Thanks.

2

Doesn’t this do what you want already? If you want to display the histogram separately, do

julia> r, s, hist = func(10);
julia> hist

or

julia> func(10)[3]
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