> On 21 Aug 2017, at 17:40, Ghislain Durif <ghislain.du...@inria.fr> wrote:
> 
> I understand why this is a BLAS related issue and not directly an R related 
> issue. Nonetheless, my concern was for non-advanced R users, that may don't 
> even know what BLAS is. For instance, I have a package on the CRAN that use 
> 'mclapply' from the 'parallel' package and the multi-threading from BLAS 
> (when using OpenBLAS) totally messes up with my multi-threading (regarding 
> computing performance). Hence, I think that some of the users of my package, 
> if not aware of that, may encounter severe issues, especially because this 
> package is mainly used to analyse bioinformatics data, which requires 
> important computing resources.

Why do you expect that users who don't know what BLAS is would explicitly 
install a multi-threaded BLAS on their Ubuntu machine? 

Best,
Stefan
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