Fortran routines from LINPACK in S+ but not R

Dear R Developers,

I should have had the Design library running in R by now but
have kept putting off changing some calls to LINPACK routines
to use those builtin to R.  Specifically I call dqrsl1 and dqr.
Would it be an easy task to put those in the next release of
R?  If not I'll finally bite the bullet and get back into
reading LINPACK documentation (which I have but haven't
examined in depth).

If dqrsl1 and dqr are not truly parts of LINPACK but are
front-ends to routines that are, and if anyone has
those front-ends to share, that would also solve my problem
immediately.

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 fharrell@virginia.edu wrote:

Dear R Developers,

I should have had the Design library running in R by now but
have kept putting off changing some calls to LINPACK routines
to use those builtin to R.  Specifically I call dqrsl1 and dqr.
Would it be an easy task to put those in the next release of
R?  If not I'll finally bite the bullet and get back into
reading LINPACK documentation (which I have but haven't
examined in depth).

If dqrsl1 and dqr are not truly parts of LINPACK but are
front-ends to routines that are, and if anyone has
those front-ends to share, that would also solve my problem
immediately.

I am pretty sure that they are not part of LINPACK: certainly dqr is not
and neither has a LINPACK name.  dqr is called by qr.default in S-PLUS,
and you should find dqrdc2 (also not LINPACK) called by R's qr an adequate
substitute.

As for dqrsl1, I've never known exactly what it supposed to do.
Would dqrsl (which is there) suffice?

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