From edd at debian.org  Mon Aug 24 13:53:09 2015
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 06:53:09 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Build optimized R : openblas, MKL, ATLAS
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On 24 August 2015 at 13:46, arnaud gaboury wrote:
| On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| >
| > You may be able to switch at will _after_ R has been built and installed.
| 
| something like:
| # update-alternatives --config ....
| ?
| Reference to this blog[0]
| >
| [0]http://blog.nguyenvq.com/blog/2014/11/10/optimized-r-and-python-standard-blas-vs-atlas-vs-openblas-vs-mkl/

Yes; see my post predating this (still using GOTO not OpenBLAS) 

    http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2010/09/15/

and of course the package and vignette which has much more detail

    https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/gcbd/index.html
    
    https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/gcbd/vignettes/gcbd.pdf

We have a dedicated list r-sig-hpc which may be more suitable for this
discussion than continuing on r-devel.  [1]

Dirk


[1] Your "what web framework" question was also pretty much off-target there.

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[Rd] Build optimized R : openblas, MKL, ATLAS
Dirk Eddelbuettel