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Matrix Package for R

2 messages · Douglas Bates, Brian Ripley

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Douglas Bates
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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.

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 R-devel@R-project.org list in
case someone reading that list can advise you on how to install Lapack
and BLAS on Solaris 7

Tao Hou <thou_69@yahoo.com> writes:
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Brian Ripley
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On 30 Jan 2003, Douglas Bates wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
No, it's not.  It's a currently supported version.

            

      
      
      
    

        
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.