Extract entropy functions to a lighter-weight package

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Extract entropy functions to a lighter-weight package

IanButterworth opened this issue 8 months ago · 6 comments

There are a lot of deps here like Plots.jl that are more front-end than the core entropy calcs.

It would be helpful to make a EntropyMetrics.jl that this depends on, that the user could use without taking on plotting deps.

Answer 1 · 2024-03-18T13:20:33.000Z

This is done in a different package already, https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/ComplexityMeasures.jl

Answer 2 · 2024-03-27T02:23:39.000Z

There are a lot of deps here like Plots.jl that are more front-end than the core entropy calcs.

It would be helpful to make a EntropyMetrics.jl that this depends on, that the user could use without taking on plotting deps.

Thanks for the feedback @IanButterworth! I'll look into this for the next release (but any guidance on how to do this would be welcomed).
Plots.jl is infamously slow to load... hopefully that will improve as Julia grows.

Answer 3 · 2024-03-27T08:40:32.000Z

Use Julia package extensions. EDIT: Example for plotting in TimeseriesSurrogates.jl: https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/TimeseriesSurrogates.jl/blob/main/src/plotting/surrogate_plot.jl and https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/TimeseriesSurrogates.jl/blob/main/ext/TimeseriesSurrogatesVisualizations.jl and https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/TimeseriesSurrogates.jl/blob/main/Project.toml#L27

Answer 4 · 2024-03-27T11:53:58.000Z

Thanks @Datseris !

Answer 5 · 2024-06-04T16:41:35.000Z

I've updated my comment above with links on how we do it for timeseries surrogates. Julia has made this very simple!

Answer 6 · 2024-06-06T13:22:55.000Z

Much appreciated @Datseris , this is very helpful.