Re: [Rd] Debate: Shall some of Microsoft R Open Code be ported to mainstream R?

2017-10-30 Thread Ista Zahn
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Cohn, Robert S wrote: > I think the thing that is missing is a simple way for end users on windows to > replace blas/lapack libraries with MKL-a package that you install that puts > the libraries in the right place. > > Microsoft provides something for their dis

Re: [Rd] Debate: Shall some of Microsoft R Open Code be ported to mainstream R?

2017-10-30 Thread Avraham Adler
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Cohn, Robert S wrote: > I think the thing that is missing is a simple way for end users on windows to > replace blas/lapack libraries with MKL-a package that you install that puts > the libraries in the right place. > > Microsoft provides something for their dis

Re: [Rd] Debate: Shall some of Microsoft R Open Code be ported to mainstream R?

2017-10-30 Thread Avraham Adler
[Sent offlist accidentally] What concerns me first and foremost is that the licensure would have to be ironclad (including for commercial use like vanilla R now) as well as ensuring that R remains completely FLOSS. Anything “added” to R has to be a no-strings-attached gift to R. Also, I would thi

[Rd] Debate: Shall some of Microsoft R Open Code be ported to mainstream R?

2017-10-30 Thread Cohn, Robert S
I think the thing that is missing is a simple way for end users on windows to replace blas/lapack libraries with MKL-a package that you install that puts the libraries in the right place. Microsoft provides something for their distro, but we don't have the equivalent if you get R from cran. O

Re: [Rd] Debate: Shall some of Microsoft R Open Code be ported to mainstream R?

2017-10-30 Thread Ista Zahn
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 29 October 2017 at 22:01, Kenny Bell wrote: > | User here: incorporating Intel's MKL, as MRO does, would be a very welcome > | addition. > | > | I was an MRO user before and it improved my experience with medium data > | immensely.

Re: [Rd] Renjin?

2017-10-30 Thread Martin Maechler
> Brian G Peterson > on Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:58:31 -0500 writes: > Renjin is not R.   Renjin is an R language interpreter > written in Java. > It has become exceedingly obvious that you are making user > errors.  That's not a bug in the language. > If you want to