R help - Feb 2012 - Access to OpenBLAS

My IT people have set up a Kubuntu box with an RWkard front
end.? I have OpenBLAS set up as a shared BLAS but I'm not
sure how to get R to see it.? A.3.1 of the installation docs talks
about it but I'm not clear if I need a option on my startup line or
if I need to find a config file.? The BLAS is is in:
?
/usr/lib/openblas-base
?
on my machine. Recommendations?

On 14/02/2012 17:01, Scott Raynaud wrote:
> My IT people have set up a Kubuntu box with an RWkard front
> end.  I have OpenBLAS set up as a shared BLAS but I'm not
> sure how to get R to see it.  A.3.1 of the installation docs talks
> about it but I'm not clear if I need a option on my startup line or
> if I need to find a config file.  The BLAS is is in:
>
> /usr/lib/openblas-base
>
> on my machine. Recommendations?
>
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AFAIK OpenBLAS is a version of the Goto BLAS, so the comments about that 
apply.  You should be able to link it as a shared BLAS.  It is not a 
configurable option when running R, nor do you need to re-configure R.

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On 14 February 2012 at 09:01, Scott Raynaud wrote:
| My IT people have set up a Kubuntu box with an RWkard front
| end.? I have OpenBLAS set up as a shared BLAS but I'm not
| sure how to get R to see it.? A.3.1 of the installation docs talks
| about it but I'm not clear if I need a option on my startup line or
| if I need to find a config file.? The BLAS is is in:
| ?
| /usr/lib/openblas-base
| ?
| on my machine. Recommendations?

This is clearly a question for the R-SIG-Debian list dedicated to R on both
Debian and Ubuntu.

In short, this should just work as BLAS libraries (from the distribution) are
plug-and-play. You can verify via the ldd command.

Dirk

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