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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: R
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:02:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <idjzinifstt.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63b53a76-8343-38cf-ee2b-81ea517e50d9@uq.edu.au>


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.

~~ Ricardo


[1]: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Goto-and-OpenBLAS

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-04 19:39 R Andreas Enge
2016-02-05 10:00 ` R Andreas Enge
2016-02-05 10:55   ` R Pjotr Prins
2016-02-05 12:37   ` R Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-05 17:17     ` R Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-05 17:59       ` R Kyle Meyer
2016-02-05 19:02       ` R Andreas Enge
2016-02-05 19:54         ` R Andreas Enge
2016-02-05 20:48           ` R Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-05 22:24             ` R Andreas Enge
2016-09-08 11:41               ` R Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-08 13:02                 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-09-09 12:07                   ` R Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-08 17:01                 ` R Pjotr Prins

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