[R] Relation of BLAS and LAPACK

2015-03-12 Thread Tomáš Greif
How BLAS and LAPACK are related, does R need both? I am trying to understsand different BLAS options in R and I am quite not sure if LAPACK is part of BLAS, or separate library or something else. Based on http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ it looks like LAPACK is some kind of BLAS extension (LAPACK

Re: [R] Relation of BLAS and LAPACK

2015-03-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 12/03/2015 13:43, Tomáš Greif wrote: How BLAS and LAPACK are related, does R need both? Both. I am trying to understsand different BLAS options in R and I am quite not sure if LAPACK is part of BLAS, or separate library or something else. Based on http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ it looks