On 30 April 2020 at 10:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 30 April 2020 at 16:40, Samuele Carcagno wrote: | | after some further investigation I found out that the issue was related | | to some calls to the `solve` function in `make.rgb`, and indeed running | | `example(solve)` would hang my R session. After I changed the default | | BLAS with: | | | | sudo update-alternatives --config libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu | | | | the problem disappeared. The BLAS output of `sessionInfo` now that | | `solve` is working is: | | | | Matrix products: default | | BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.9.0 | | LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3 | | | | while before when `solve` was not working it was: | | | | Matrix products: default | | BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3 | | LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3 | | | | so it seems the issue is with the Ubuntu package `libopenblas0-pthread` | | and has nothing to do with R. I don't know why openblas-pthread was the | | default BLAS on my system. | | That is most helpful! It could potentially affect lots of other users too. | | And on the aforementioned rocker/r-ubuntu:20.04 image, if upgrade to | libopenblas-dev I get it too: | | root@d9a07e9f0e5f:/work# apt install libopenblas-dev | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | The following additional packages will be installed: | libopenblas-pthread-dev libopenblas0 libopenblas0-pthread | The following NEW packages will be installed: | libopenblas-dev libopenblas-pthread-dev libopenblas0 libopenblas0-pthread | 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 13.7 MB of archives. | After this operation, 153 MB of additional disk space will be used. | Do you want to continue? [Y/n] | | and then 'example(solve)' hangs at | | sh8 <- solve(h8) | | Not good at all.
Same on Debian. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
