On 30 Jan 2003, Douglas Bates wrote: > You will need both the Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (BLAS) and a > version of Lapack to install the Matrix package. I'm not sure if > pre-compiled versions are available for Solaris 7. I believe that is > a rather old version of the Sun OS.
No, it's not. It's a currently supported version. > > After R-1.7.0 is released in April, 2003 it should be possible to use > the Matrix package on any platform with R as Brian Ripley has > incorporated Lapack sources into the development version of R. > > I am sending a copy of this reply to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list in > case someone reading that list can advise you on how to install Lapack > and BLAS on Solaris 7 1) Use the SunPro compiler (if you have it) and -lsunperf, and skip the configure steps. 2) get the sources from netlib and compile them: it works out of the box. It will be much easier come 1.7.0, as Doug says. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
