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Installing Julia

Julia is a high-level programming language similar to R, Matlab or Python. However, it is also a high-performance language. Julia programs can be similarly fast to those written in compiled languages like C/C++/Fortran. To install Julia, follow the instructions on the official website. If you are new to Julia, there are several community-made tutorials. There is also an extensive official manual, useful for looking up specifics.

Editors

There are several options for how to work with Julia:

  • (Recommended) Visual Studio Code is an integrated developer environment (IDE), which has both a file editor and a console for entering commands. If you have used RStudio before, Visual Studio Code will be very similar.
  • You can also run Julia in a Jupyter notebook, as is often done with Python projects.
  • Alternatively, you can edit script files with your editor of choice (for example notepad/vim), and either copy-paste lines of copy into the Julia console or use the include("script.jl") command.

Installing Pesto.jl (stable)

To install the latest release of Pesto.jl, enter this in Julia:

import Pkg
Pkg.add("Pesto")

The package manager (Pkg) will automatically resolve and install any necessary dependencies.

Installing Pesto.jl (dev)

If you want to use the developmental version of Pesto.jl, you can install it using a git repository URL. This can be done as follows:

import Pkg
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/kopperud/Pesto.jl")

Loading Pesto.jl

Pesto can be loaded like so:

using Pesto

Since Julia is a JIT (just-in-time) compiled language, any code must be compiled before it can be run. To save some time, there is also a pre-compiling step the first time a module is loaded. This means we have to wait a short while. Once the module is finished pre-compiling, you are now ready!