Which OS are you using (Windows, Linux (distro), Mac)? When you mention .so files I tend to assume you are using a Linux system. If you are using ubuntu, changing the BLAS used by R is relatively trivial by using 'update-alternatives'. More detail is provided at the following link: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~nmv/2013/07/09/for-faster-r-use-openblas-instead-better-than-atlas-trivial-to-switch-to-on-ubuntu/
Charles On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Michael Gooch <gooc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am looking at the instructions on > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#ATLAS > > I have noticed that ATLAS produces two shared libs in addition to the *.a > files: > http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/atlas_install/node22.html > > contents of the ATLAS lib directory: > libatlas.a libcblas.a libf77blas.a liblapack.a libptcblas.a > libptf77blas.a libsatlas.so libtatlas.so > > The instructions do not appear to match up with the *.a files & *.so files > as described. (it appears to want me to use shared libs, but the names > defined are static libs, not shared libs). > > should I simply be having it link against libtatlas.so (and pthreads) for > shared threaded atlas and libsatlas.so for shared sequential atlas? > do I need shared versions of the other static libraries? > > I think the help is a bit out of date, or at least unclear as to what it > intends of me. > > M. Gooch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
