[R] R on 64-bit Linux machine

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Roger D. Peng wrote:

> I've built (and routinely use) 64 bit R on the following platforms:
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (AMD Opteron 848)
> Fedora Core 2 x86_64 (AMD Athlon 64 3800+)
> SuSE SLES 8 (AMD Opteron 248)
>
> One problem that has come up is that if you want to link R with ATLAS, you 
> need to build shared ATLAS libraries (rather than static).  This requires 
> some modifications to the configuation files for ATLAS.  But my experience 
> shows that R itself builds out of the box on these systems.

However, you will almost certainly get better performance out of the Goto 
BLAS implementations, and they are shared (and easy to use, much more so 
than ATLAS).

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