[julia-users] Re: More elaborate help functions in Julia?

2016-10-20 Thread John Best
I have found the Julia documentation at http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/manual/ very helpful. It often has documentation that doesn't show up when calling help in the REPL. On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 2:51:02 PM UTC-7, Phil wrote: > > The normal way to access help on a function

[julia-users] Re: JupyterLab

2016-08-14 Thread John Best
I played around with it a bit (got it running, poked around, but nothing more). All of my installed Jupyter kernels (I've got Python 2 and 3, R, and Julia) were recognized right away. My impression was that it could be fantastic, especially within an analysis-oriented workflow. I'm excited to

[julia-users] Re: Installs .5.0 dev on unbuntu instead of .4.6

2016-07-22 Thread John Best
Make sure you're using the release ppa (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/juliareleases)and not the nightlies ppa (sudo apt-add-repository ppa:staticfloat/julianightlies). Try sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:staticfloat/julianightlies sudo apt-add-repository

[julia-users] Working with DataFrame columns types that are Nullable

2016-07-21 Thread John Best
I've got ODBC.jl set up to retrieve a couple of queries. This works, but it is returning a DataFrame with column eltypes of Nullable{Int64}, Nullable{Dec64}, etc. I'd like to convert the numeric element types to Float64 for use in my analysis (which was written based on reading .csv's of the

[julia-users] Re: Precompilation fails on `using RCall`

2016-06-30 Thread John Best
This seems to be affecting most of the packages (e.g. PyPlot via JSON and Compat, but not Distributions) that I have installed. I did a Pkg.update() for the first time in a while today, which is when I started having problems. On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 3:18:35 PM UTC-8, John Best wrote

[julia-users] Precompilation fails on `using RCall`

2016-06-30 Thread John Best
I've just installed RCall. It appears to identify my R installation, but fails to load with errors about other packages: julia> Base.compilecache("RCall") R installation found at "/usr/lib/R" "~/.julia/lib/v0.4/RCall.ji" julia> using RCall INFO: Recompiling stale cache file

[julia-users] Re: Pkg.update() fails on local package

2016-06-10 Thread John Best
Thanks for the quick reply. Just after I posted this, I re-read the Pkg.init help, and realized that I had tried to initialize a new package using it, when it actually switches your package library folder to a new location. Running `Pkg.init()` fixed my problems. My dumb mistake for the day I

[julia-users] Pkg.update() fails on local package

2016-06-09 Thread John Best
in cd at pkg/dir.jl:31 in installed at pkg.jl:29 Am I missing a reference to it somewhere? What do I need to fix to update my packages successfully? Thanks, John Best