# Load packages in a list with the using keyword
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [April 23, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891 "2022-04-23T12:47:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Ismam](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ismam)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891/1 "2022-04-23T12:47:25Z")
Is there a way to load multiple packages stored in an array of strings, using the using keyword?
Something like this, except that it works please:
using [“CSV”, “DataFrames”, “Dates”, “Plots”]
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@albheim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/albheim)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891/2 "2022-04-23T13:25:16Z")
I don’t think this exists, nothing I have seen at least.
You could easily implement something like it, though the only way I could think of now involves `eval` which is not really considered nice to use. But I know too little of how and why this is to say if it would be bad here. Though if you want it this worked for me when testing at least.
```julia
function importall(pkgs)
ex = Expr(:using, map(pkg -> Expr(:(.), Symbol(pkg)), pkgs)...)
eval(ex)
end
pkgs = ["LinearAlgebra", "Statistics"]
importall(pkgs)
```
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891/3 "2022-04-23T14:27:14Z")
It may also be written as a for loop:
```julia
for pkg in pkgs
@eval using $(Symbol(pkg))
end
```
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### Author:  [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891/4 "2022-04-23T14:43:19Z")
I’m curious why you want to to that.
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### Author:  [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891/5 "2022-04-23T14:45:44Z")
> [@rafael.guerra](#):
>
> It may also be written as a ~~comprehension~~
What was wrong with the comprehension?
And perhaps better to generalize more:
```julia
for pkg in pkgs
@eval @ __MODULE__ ,using $(Symbol(pkg))
end
```
which would have it work inside modules as expected.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/load-packages-in-a-list-with-the-using-keyword/79891/6 "2022-04-23T14:50:22Z")
> [@oheil](#):
>
> What was wrong with the comprehension?
I have tried to use the best practice: _if no array is to be returned, use a for loop instead of comprehension_