# SpecialFunctions ( Julia v1.0 )

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920
**Category:** Statistics
**Created:** [May 6, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920 "2019-05-06T16:09:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![BMval](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bmval/32/7647_2.png) [@BMval](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BMval)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920/1 "2019-05-06T16:09:31Z")

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Good day.  
I need to use besselk function from SpecialFunctions package. Unfortunately, SpecialFunctions don’t work under v1.0 Julia version.  
At the same time Distributions.jl uses besselk function and work under v1.0  
Would somebody help me, how I can use besselk function?  
Thank you.

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### Author: ![Palli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/palli/32/3380_2.png) [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920/2 "2019-05-06T16:33:10Z")

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Are you for sure using the package [https://github.com/JuliaMath/SpecialFunctions.jl](https://github.com/JuliaMath/SpecialFunctions.jl)? If I recall what it had was included in Julia but is now a package.

I see it has besselk and is tested to up to 1.1 at least.

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920/3 "2019-05-06T16:58:23Z")

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> [@BMval](#):
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> I need to use besselk function from SpecialFunctions package. Unfortunately, SpecialFunctions don’t work under v1.0 Julia version.

Can you please be more precise and give more context? What package did you install? What exact error do you get, if any?

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### Author: ![BMval](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bmval/32/7647_2.png) [@BMval](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BMval)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920/4 "2019-05-06T17:00:43Z")

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I run Pkg.add(“SpecialFunctions”)  
and there is error Unsatisfiable requirements detected for package DebuggerFramework [67417a49]:  
DebuggerFramework [67417a49] log:  
├─possible versions are: 0.1.0-0.1.2 or uninstalled  
├─restricted by compatibility requirements with Atom [c52e3926] to versions: 0.1.0-0.1.2  
│ └─Atom [c52e3926] log:  
│ ├─possible versions are: [0.1.0-0.1.1, 0.2.0-0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.4.0-0.4.6, 0.5.0-0.5.10, 0.6.0-0.6.17, 0.7.0-0.7.15, 0.8.0-0.8.5] or uninstalled  
│ └─restricted to versions 0.7.14 by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions 0.7.14  
└─restricted by julia compatibility requirements to versions: uninstalled — no versions left

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920/5 "2019-05-06T17:04:15Z")

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Could you please post the output of `]status`? Please, also quote code blocks with backticks, see [PSA: how to quote code with backticks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-how-to-quote-code-with-backticks/7530)

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### Author: ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920/6 "2019-05-06T17:29:54Z")

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```julia
pkg> rm -m DebuggerFramework

pkg> add SpecialFunctions

```

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### Author: ![BMval](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bmval/32/7647_2.png) [@BMval](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BMval)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/specialfunctions-julia-v1-0/23920/7 "2019-05-06T18:55:11Z")

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Thank you.
