Hi all, I've compiled R-1.4.0 on my NT box with link against ATLAS. It has passed all the Rcmd CHECK that I could run. If there's sufficient interest, I can make the SetupR.exe available (on CRAN?). Just drop me a note if you're interested. Note the following: o I can only connect thru 56K dial-up until Jan. 2, 2002, so unless there's overwhelming demand, I won't attempt the upload until then. o The ATLAS is optimized for the Pentium III with SSE1 architecture, so you need at least that (e.g., P4 probably works, but not PII). o The pre-compiled packages made available by Prof. Ripley may not work (if they contain calls to BLAS). Thus update.packages() may not work for such packages. I can also provide ATLAS-enabled packages, if there's sufficient interest. Now, question: Is it possble (perhaps by adding options to update.packages()) to get update.packages() to download the source and compile, like other platforms, on Windoze? Happy holidays! Andy Andy I. Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research Phone: (732) 594-0820 Merck & Co., Inc. Fax: (732) 594-1565 P.O. Box 2000, RY70-38 Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Prof Brian D Ripley
2001-Dec-20 20:35 UTC
[R] Any interest in ATLAS-enabled R-1.4.0 for MSWin?
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Liaw, Andy wrote:> Hi all, > > I've compiled R-1.4.0 on my NT box with link against ATLAS. It has passed > all the Rcmd CHECK that I could run. If there's sufficient interest, I can > make the SetupR.exe available (on CRAN?). Just drop me a note if you're > interested. Note the following: > > o I can only connect thru 56K dial-up until Jan. 2, 2002, so unless there's > overwhelming demand, I won't attempt the upload until then. > > o The ATLAS is optimized for the Pentium III with SSE1 architecture, so you > need at least that (e.g., P4 probably works, but not PII). > > o The pre-compiled packages made available by Prof. Ripley may not work (if > they contain calls to BLAS). Thus update.packages() may not work for such > packages. I can also provide ATLAS-enabled packages, if there's sufficient > interest.There are only 5 exceptions at present (KernSmooth, bqtl, fracdiff, gss, quadprog and quantreg) that need rebuilding. This should be much easier come R 1.5.0, when all that needs to be done is to replace a single DLL, and then we can make various versions of that DLL available. For those who are interested, it might be better to use the current R-devel, which is already set up for this.> Now, question: Is it possble (perhaps by adding options to > update.packages()) to get update.packages() to download the source and > compile, like other platforms, on Windoze?No, it's not. People have enough problems doing it manually! -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
M. Edward Borasky
2001-Dec-21 05:03 UTC
[R] RE: Any interest in ATLAS-enabled R-1.4.0 for MSWin?
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:21:03 -0500 > From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> > Subject: [R] Any interest in ATLAS-enabled R-1.4.0 for MSWin? > > Hi all, > > I've compiled R-1.4.0 on my NT box with link against ATLAS. It has passed > all the Rcmd CHECK that I could run. If there's sufficient > interest, I can > make the SetupR.exe available (on CRAN?). Just drop me a note if you're > interested. Note the following:Yes, I am interested, although I am probably going to duplicate this effort and at least one other. I have a number of PIIIs available where I work -- and a few PIIs :( -- as well as a Celeron at home, all running Windows 2000. IIRC PIII Atlas == Celeron Atlas. If Celeron Atlas != PIII Atlas, I will be building Celeron Atlas and then Windows R 1.4.0 at home, and PIII Atlas/R at work. Because of the unavailability of sound card drivers on my Athlon / Linux box, I was forced to dual-boot that machine Windows 2000 and Red Hat 7.2. I am, even as we speak, building the latest development version of Atlas (3.3.13) on the Linux side and will be testing it with R 1.4.0 once that is done. Assuming all goes well, I can probably make the results available as binary RPMs, although Atlas is BSD licensed and Atlas 3.3.13 is a developer ("unstable") release. Athlon Atlas builds best with gcc 2.95.3, I'm told, so it will take me a while to test all of this. Once I have all *that* magic debugged, I'm planning on building Athlon Windows Atlas (3.3.13) and R 1.4.0, using whatever the recommended tools are these days -- most likely using the same Windows tools to build Atlas that I am using to build R. That's a lower-priority item; since the machine is dual-booted, when I need R/Atlas I can reboot and run against data in a shared partition. -- Take Your Trading to the Next Level! M. Edward Borasky, Meta-Trading Coach znmeb at borasky-research.net http://www.meta-trading-coach.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meta-trading-coach -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._