Does anyone see a nice portable way to detect --- from inside R --- if R is using its own BLAS or not? { And ideally, if not, can R find out which ``kind'' of (optimized) BLAS it does run? }
And the same for LAPACK ? One way of getting a partial answer seems to be Rs_own_LAPACK_and_BLAS <- list.files(file.path(R.home(), "lib"), pattern = "^libRlapack") > 0 (where I'd be grateful for confirmation from a Mac and a Windows user that the above does work) The reason for asking is a plan of a somewhat automated speed comparison simulation which seems to depend quite a bit on the architecture and the version of BLAS it uses. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel