Re: [R] Using OpenBLAS with R

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Hannon
Useful and interesting. Thanks for your prompt reply. -- Mike On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 16/11/2014 00:11, Michael Hannon wrote: >> >> Greetings. I'd like to get some advice about using OpenBLAS with R, >> rather >> than using the BLAS that comes built in to

Re: [R] Using OpenBLAS with R

2014-11-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/11/2014 00:11, Michael Hannon wrote: Greetings. I'd like to get some advice about using OpenBLAS with R, rather than using the BLAS that comes built in to R. That was really a topic for the R-devel list: see the posting guide. I've tried this on my Fedora 20 system (see the appended fo

[R] Using OpenBLAS with R

2014-11-15 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. I'd like to get some advice about using OpenBLAS with R, rather than using the BLAS that comes built in to R. I've tried this on my Fedora 20 system (see the appended for details). I ran a simple test -- multiplying two large matrices -- and the results were very impressive, i.e., in