Package -- the class of all packages

Functions and methods returning a package:

• installPackage -- load and install a package and its documentation
• loadPackage -- load a package
• needsPackage -- load a package if not already loaded
• package -- get containing package

Methods that use a package:

• ? Package -- see ? Symbol -- view brief documentation of a symbol
• check(List,Package) -- see check -- perform tests of a package
• check(Package) -- see check -- perform tests of a package
• check(ZZ,Package) -- see check -- perform tests of a package
• debug(Package) -- open the private dictionary of a package
• dismiss(Package) -- see dismiss -- dismiss a package
• exportFrom(Package,List) -- see exportFrom -- export symbols from a package's private dictionary
• exportFrom(Package,String) -- see exportFrom -- export symbols from a package's private dictionary
• importFrom(Package,List) -- see importFrom -- import symbols to the current private dictionary
• importFrom(Package,String) -- see importFrom -- import symbols to the current private dictionary
• installPackage(Package) -- see installPackage -- load and install a package and its documentation
• loadPackage(Package) -- see loadPackage -- load a package
• locate(Package) -- see locate -- locate source code
• methods(Package) -- see methods -- list methods
• options(Package)
• package(Package) -- see package -- get containing package
• readPackage(Package) -- see readPackage -- read the package preamble
• tests(Package) -- see tests -- locate a package's tests
• tests(ZZ,Package) -- see tests -- locate a package's tests
• uninstallPackage(Package) -- see uninstallPackage -- uninstall a package and remove its documentation
• use(Package) -- activate a previously dismissed package

Protected objects of class Package:

• AssociativeAlgebras -- Noncommutative algebra computations
• BernsteinSato -- algorithms for b-functions, local cohomology, and intersection cohomology
• Classic -- a parser for classic Macaulay syntax
• Complexes -- development package for beta testing new version of chain complexes
• ConwayPolynomials -- database of Conway polynomials for use with GF
• Core -- the core of Macaulay2
• Dmodules -- D-modules package collection
• Elimination -- eliminating specified variables, and Sylvester resultant
• FirstPackage -- an example Macaulay2 package
• FourierMotzkin -- for convex hull and vertex enumeration
• FourTiTwo -- Interface for 4ti2
• GenericInitialIdeal -- find the generic initial ideal of a given ideal
• HolonomicSystems -- Examples of Holonomic D-modules
• IntegralClosure -- routines for integral closure of affine domains and ideals
• InverseSystems -- Macaulay's Inverse Systems
• Isomorphism -- probabilistic test for isomorphism of modules
• LLLBases -- lattice reduction (Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz bases)
• Macaulay2Doc -- Macaulay2 documentation
• MinimalPrimes -- minimal primes and radical routines for ideals
• OldChainComplexes -- legacy implementation of chain complexes
• OnlineLookup -- Look up mathematical information online
• PackageCitations -- a package facilitating citation of Macaulay2 packages
• Parsing -- a framework for building parsers
• Polyhedra -- for computations with convex polyhedra, cones, and fans
• PrimaryDecomposition -- primary decomposition and associated primes routines for ideals and modules
• PushForward -- methods to compute the pushforward of a module along a ring map
• ReesAlgebra -- Compute Rees algebras and their invariants
• Saturation -- ideal and submodule quotient, saturation, and annihilator routines
• Schubert2 -- computation in intersection theory
• SchurRings -- Rings representing irreducible representations of general linear or symmetric groups
• SimpleDoc -- simpler documentation for functions and methods
• SimplicialComplexes -- exploring abstract simplicial complexes within commutative algebra
• TangentCone -- tangent cones
• Text -- documentation and hypertext
• Topcom -- interface to selected functions from topcom package
• Truncations -- truncations of graded ring, ideals and modules
• User (missing documentation)
• Varieties -- affine and projective algebraic geometry
• WeylAlgebras -- algorithms for D-modules

For the programmer

The object Package is a type, with ancestor classes MutableHashTable < HashTable < Thing.

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