>From "R Installation and Administration:"Note that the BLAS library will be used for several add-on packages as well as for R itself. This means that it is better to use a shared BLAS library, as most of a static library will be compiled into the R executable and each BLAS-using package. Is there an idiots guide on how to do this (or should idiots just not try). I've compiled atlas as a static (.a) library and successfully built R (although, when it is static, I don't know how to tell for sure that it is being used). However, their seems to be little indication of how to make a shared (.so) ATLAS library. I've had even less success with blas from netlib. (I compiled .so files and generated a file libblas.so, but there are a lot of unresolved symbols, so R crashes.) Any help would be appreciated. (Linux or Solaris). Thanks, Paul Gilbert -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> try). I've compiled atlas as a static (.a) library and successfully > built R (although, when it is static, I don't know how to tell for > sure that it is being used). However, their seems to be littleI think you can use nm on the R.bin file -- if you compiled with static ATLAS there should a bunch of ATL_* symbols. -roger _______________________________ UCLA Department of Statistics rpeng at stat.ucla.edu http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rpeng On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Paul Gilbert wrote:> >From "R Installation and Administration:" > > Note that the BLAS library will be used for several add-on packages as > well as for R itself. This means that it is better to use a > shared BLAS library, as most of a static library will be compiled > into the R executable and each BLAS-using package. > > Is there an idiots guide on how to do this (or should idiots just not > indication of how to make a shared (.so) ATLAS library. I've had even > less success with blas from netlib. (I compiled .so files and > generated a file libblas.so, but there are a lot of unresolved > symbols, so R crashes.) > > Any help would be appreciated. (Linux or Solaris). > > Thanks, > Paul Gilbert > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > 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 > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
You may want to check out http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-help/2002/7917.html from the R-help archive. It doesn't exactly look "straightforward" but this may point you in the right direction. Can't say I've done it myself. -roger _______________________________ UCLA Department of Statistics rpeng at stat.ucla.edu http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rpeng On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Paul Gilbert wrote:> >From "R Installation and Administration:" > > Note that the BLAS library will be used for several add-on packages as > well as for R itself. This means that it is better to use a > shared BLAS library, as most of a static library will be compiled > into the R executable and each BLAS-using package. > > Is there an idiots guide on how to do this (or should idiots just not try). I've > compiled atlas as a static (.a) library and successfully built R (although, when > it is static, I don't know how to tell for sure that it is being used). However, > their seems to be little indication of how to make a shared (.so) ATLAS library. > I've had even less success with blas from netlib. (I compiled .so files and > generated a file libblas.so, but there are a lot of unresolved symbols, so R > crashes.) > > Any help would be appreciated. (Linux or Solaris). > > Thanks, > Paul Gilbert > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > 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 > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:50:21PM -0500, Paul Gilbert wrote:> >From "R Installation and Administration:" > > Note that the BLAS library will be used for several add-on packages as > well as for R itself. This means that it is better to use a > shared BLAS library, as most of a static library will be compiled > into the R executable and each BLAS-using package. > > Is there an idiots guide on how to do this (or should idiots just not try). I've > compiled atlas as a static (.a) library and successfully built R (although, when > it is static, I don't know how to tell for sure that it is being used). However, > their seems to be little indication of how to make a shared (.so) ATLAS library. > I've had even less success with blas from netlib. (I compiled .so files and > generated a file libblas.so, but there are a lot of unresolved symbols, so R > crashes.) > > Any help would be appreciated. (Linux or Solaris).For Linux, I feel compelled to plug in Camm's great work for Atlas under Debian. It simply works out of the box, and my R packages use it. No configuration on the user part whatsoever. As for Solaris, can't help there... Dirk -- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._