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...ev I successfully built GotoBLAS2 from source, copied the library to /usr/lib and created s symbolic link from libblas.so.3gf to point to the new GotoBLAS2 library. I think the symbolic links and everything are set up correctly, because the BLAS itself works: I'm using Dirk Eddelbuettel's gbcd package to benchmark the difference, and I can still run the matrix multiplication benchmarks (I guess crossprod doesn't depend on lapack?), and I'm getting a 15x speedup over the default BLAS with 8 cores used. The problem, though, is that when I try to run anything that depends on lapack...

dear debian-R group: I am using the stock ubuntu binary R 3.0.1 for ubuntu raring but on cinnamon mint olivia 15. I read dirk's gcbd paper from a couple of years ago. it suggests that stock blas is pretty bad compared to the four main alternatives. of course, dirk also maintains the binaries for debian/ubuntu R, so he probably knows the answer off hand. I installed libatlas3-base