Recommended Julia Packages for Mera Workflows

Mera draws nothing itself. The tutorials plot with CairoMakie, and a few older projection pages use PyPlot — neither is a Mera dependency:

using Pkg
Pkg.add("CairoMakie")

Mera's Makie support is a package extension: it activates once a backend is loaded.

Packages that commonly pair well with Mera for astrophysical AMR / N-body analysis. None is required — Mera works on its own. For the wider Julia ecosystem beyond Mera workflows, see Essential Packages, which also marks which packages Mera already depends on.

Core Visualization

• PyPlot.jl – Matplotlib style publication plots
• Makie.jl – High‑performance interactive & GPU plotting
• PlotlyJS.jl – Web, interactive dashboards
• StatsPlots.jl – Quick statistical visualizations

Data Analysis & Tables

• DataFrames.jl – Tabular manipulation
• CSV.jl – Fast CSV I/O
• Arrow.jl – Columnar interchange (big tables)
• StatsBase.jl, Distributions.jl – Statistics & probability

Units & Physical Context

• Unitful.jl – Core unit system
• UnitfulAstro.jl – Astronomical constants & units

Numerics & Math

• FFTW.jl – Fourier transforms
• Interpolations.jl – Multi-D interpolation

Performance & Developer Tooling

(Included implicitly with Mera: BenchmarkTools, ProgressMeter)

• ProfileView.jl / StatProfilerHTML.jl – Profiling
• TimerOutputs.jl – Structured timing blocks

File Formats / I/O

(Included: JLD2 via Mera.JLD2)

• HDF5.jl – HDF5 ecosystem interoperability
• FITSIO.jl – FITS astrophysical data
• BSON.jl – Lightweight object persistence
• NPZ.jl – Exchange with Python / NumPy

Astronomy / Cosmology

• AstroLib.jl – General utilities
• Cosmology.jl – Cosmological distance / expansion utilities
• WCS.jl – World coordinate system transforms

Quick Install (pick what you need)

using Pkg
Pkg.add([
    "PyPlot", "Makie", "DataFrames", "CSV", "StatsBase",
    "Distributions", "FFTW", "Interpolations", "Unitful", "UnitfulAstro",
    "HDF5", "FITSIO", "AstroLib", "Cosmology", "WCS"
])

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