I think the thing that is missing is a simple way for end users on windows to replace blas/lapack libraries with MKL-a package that you install that puts the libraries in the right place.
Microsoft provides something for their distro, but we don't have the equivalent if you get R from cran. On 29 October 2017 at 22:01, Kenny Bell wrote: | User here: incorporating Intel's MKL, as MRO does, would be a very welcome | addition. | | I was an MRO user before and it improved my experience with medium data | immensely. | | They did, however, leave behind bugs here and there, especially related to | development with Rcpp, so I switched back to vanilla R. With all due respect: You may miss something. MKL has always worked with 'Base R'. As a point of reference and comparison, I set up a benchmarking and comparison package _well over half a decade ago_ and while it never get fully finished to the point of a submitted paper the vignette still stands---and demonstrates that _dropping in MKL is a one-line operation_. And always has been. There may have been some license arbitrage: Intel was an early investor in Revo, so MKL was pushed hard. With GotoBLAS and later OpenBLAS I cared less, but IIRC the license of MKL is a little simpler for "mere use" now. See https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/gcbd/vignettes/gcbd.pdf for more. Hth, Dirk [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
