Re: R

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

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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?

Thanks,
ben

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From 012c013661c739b8d90be8bcbfce13349dcaee89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben J Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 21:14:12 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: r: Add openblas input.

* gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r)[inputs]: Add openblas.
[arguments]: Adapt configure flags.
---
 gnu/packages/statistics.scm | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index 990f2fc..e34bcec 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ be output in text, PostScript, PDF or HTML.")
           (lambda _ (zero? (system* "make" "install-info")))))
        #:configure-flags
        '("--with-cairo"
+         "--with-blas=openblas"
          "--with-libpng"
          "--with-jpeglib"
          "--with-libtiff"
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ be output in text, PostScript, PDF or HTML.")
        ("pango" ,pango)
        ("curl" ,curl)
        ("tzdata" ,tzdata)
+       ("openblas" ,openblas)
        ("gfortran" ,gfortran)
        ("icu4c" ,icu4c)
        ("libjpeg" ,libjpeg)
-- 
2.9.2