Re: [R-sig-Geo] enhanced BLAS support in R 2.8.1

2009-03-06 Thread Christopher Paciorek
Hi Josh, Take a look at the section on BLAS in the R Installation and Admin manual. In Linux we've gotten order of magnitude speedups by using GotoBLAS instead of the default BLAS in R. But it's not available for XP - there are other BLAS implementations mentioned in the manual that might

[R-sig-Geo] enhanced BLAS support in R 2.8.1

2009-03-06 Thread Myers, Joshua
List, I am running Windows XP and R 2.8.1 on a Dell Core 2 Processor Computer. I have a question concerning the performance speed of matrix operations and BLAS. Is R 2.8.1 already configured to take advantage of more enhanced BLAS than the old standard R BLAS, or is there something extra