Re: [R-pkg-devel] NOTE related to Miniconda installation

2021-09-18 Thread Walter, Vonn
-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] NOTE related to Miniconda installation Attention: This email originated outside of Penn State Health. Use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. Hey, First of all I see that you need a numpy package so I assume some matrix/tensor

Re: [R-pkg-devel] NOTE related to Miniconda installation

2021-09-18 Thread Maciej Nasinski
Hey, First of all I see that you need a numpy package so I assume some matrix/tensor operations are done. There is no difference in performance between R and Python if you are using proper BLAS and LAPACK. Windows users might use MRO MKL, Linux users openblas and the Mac os vecLib has to be

Re: [R-pkg-devel] NOTE related to Miniconda installation

2021-09-17 Thread Jeff Newmiller
I can't really see why it should be "recommended" to handle installing system requirements inside an R package. There are many ways to satisfy such requirements that would not involve miniconda. If you were determined to provide such support, doing so in a normal function documented in a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] NOTE related to Miniconda installation

2021-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 17/09/2021 2:55 p.m., Walter, Vonn wrote: Hi Everyone, I am developing a package (called mypackage in the text below) that uses reticulate to call a Python script for computational efficiency. At some point during the development of the package I read that it would be good to verify