Re: [R] R Running slow on Ubuntu

2014-03-16 Thread Mitchell Maltenfort
http://www.cybaea.net/Blogs/Faster-R-through-better-BLAS.html any help? On Mar 16, 2014 9:38 PM, "Russell Bainer" wrote: > Thanks guys. I'll look into this and tell you if I come up with anything. > > -R > > > On Saturday, March 15, 2014, Jeff Newmiller > wrote: > > > Comparing with an unspecifi

Re: [R] R Running slow on Ubuntu

2014-03-16 Thread Russell Bainer
Thanks guys. I'll look into this and tell you if I come up with anything. -R On Saturday, March 15, 2014, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Comparing with an unspecified benchmark makes answering this too hard. > Following instructions in the Posting Guide will lead to more accurate Q > and A. > > Note

Re: [R] R Running slow on Ubuntu

2014-03-15 Thread Shige Song
Installing the openbals library may help. Shige On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Comparing with an unspecified benchmark makes answering this too hard. > Following instructions in the Posting Guide will lead to more accurate Q > and A. > > Note that you may not need to

Re: [R] R Running slow on Ubuntu

2014-03-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Comparing with an unspecified benchmark makes answering this too hard. Following instructions in the Posting Guide will lead to more accurate Q and A. Note that you may not need to compile if you have not as yet followed the recommendations: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README. The

Re: [R] R Running slow on Ubuntu

2014-03-15 Thread Augusto Cesar
My guess is that maybe the default Ubuntu binaries aren't compiled with MKL (Math Kernel Library) support and thus with no multithreading. I would suggest doing a quick research on how to re-compile R with MKL support and maybe you'll be good to go. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Russell Bainer

[R] R Running slow on Ubuntu

2014-03-15 Thread Russell Bainer
Hi All, I've run across an odd phenomenon and I am wondering if someone might be able to provide insight as to what is going on. I'm running some R code that was provided by a collaborator, who is not a very experienced R programmer (e.g., the code is functional but not very efficient). When I run