On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Francisco J Molina wrote: > > I am using linux rehat 9 > When I try to run R I get > > usr/lib/R/bin/R.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libblas.so.3: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > ( because I removed it ) > > I thought of compiling R from source but I have read: > > "R currently uses only level 1 blas and the most significant atlas > optimizations are for level 3 (and level 2 to some extent). > The problem with using ATLAS is that its installation process does > not build the shared libraries by default and the whole build process is > rather complicated." > > This is from a 3 years old message but I guess that the state of the art now > is similar.
It's not. R now makes heavy use of level 3 BLAS. On RH9 ATLAS should build out of the box (with static libraries), and be well worth using. -- 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 https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
