Re: R

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

OpenBLAS works fine for me - hit the same issue with Python before.

Pj.

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:41:59PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> 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

> 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
> 


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