Re: R

[Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>]

On 08/09/16 23:02, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I thought I'd respond to this old thread now that the openblas eigen
>> error seems to be fixed. I'm interested in using openblas so that the
>> (as yet not in master) WGCNA package works faster, among other things:
>>
>> https://labs.genetics.ucla.edu/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/Rpackages/WGCNA/faq.html
>>
>>
>> On 06/02/16 08:24, Andreas Enge wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>>> I would suggest to drop “--with-lapack”, too.  (I haven’t found the time
>>>> to try building without this flag just now.)  The manual says:
>>>> I don’t remember why I added it in the first place, so I think it’s best
>>>> to drop it, considering that the manual tells us only to do it if we
>>>> know what we want to achieve by adding it.
>>> I did, and it still builds on arm.
>> Shall I push the attached patch to core-updates? I tested it on x86_64.
>> Or, would you mind testing it on arm please Andreas?
> The patch looks fine to me and I’m generally in favour of adding
> OpenBLAS to R.
>
> I should note that the R admin manual[1] says that the correct configure
> flag for OpenBLAS is
>
>      --with-blas="-lopenblas"
>
> I’m not sure if this makes a difference.

Thanks. I changed it to that minus the double quotes, and updated to 
3.3.1, then pushed to core-updated. We'll see how things go.
ta