Hi everyone.  I wanted to let you know about some changes that are
happening with the soon-to-be-tagged 0.8 version of Plots.  In an attempt
to organize the ecosystem and thin out the core of Plots, there are a few
relatively new packages, all within the JuliaPlots organization:

PlotUtils.jl: Generic plotting components.  For now this includes a
redesign of the color handling, as well as the optimize_ticks method from
Gadfly.  The hope is that eventually several plotting packages can share
this dependency, but for now it is only used by Plots.

StatPlots.jl: This new package contains:

   - From Plots: DataFrame support and boxplot, violin, and density recipes
   - From PlotRecipes: corrplot and marginalhist recipes
   - Additional: cornerplot (thanks @mauro3) and recipes on Distributions

PlotRecipes.jl: All non-core recipes that don't have a better home.  For
now, there are recipes for:

   - Graphs (spectral, stress-based, tree, arc/chord diagrams)
   - Maps (supports Shapefile.jl)
   - and others

Note: *If you want to plot DataFrames, you need to import StatPlots!!*

Let me know if you have any questions/concerns.  If you create generic
recipes that you think others might use, please consider contributing to
either StatPlots or PlotRecipes!

Best,
Tom

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