[R-SIG-Mac] Lapack errors on Mac but not on Linux

[Gad Abraham]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gad Abraham wrote:
> 
>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>>> Is this an issue with the Apple-supplied Lapack?
>>>
>>> Or the Apple-supplied BLAS.
>>>
>>> You have not told us how R was built on your machine, but if this was 
>>> the CRAN build you have a choice of BLAS.  (See the list archives, 
>>> but AFAIR, you can swap links between libRblas.0dylib and 
>>> libRblas.veclib.dylib in 
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib.)  (On that build 
>>> AFAICS the Lapack used is the R one.)
>>
>> Both are from CRAN.
>>
>>>
>>> I think your example is actually random (it uses 10-fold CV?) in 
>>> which case that might have been the difference between machines.
>>
>> I get consistent failures on Mac, and it works consistently on Linux.
>>
>>>
>>> With a lot of patience, I got the example to run on my own build 
>>> which uses the recipe in the R-admin manual (veclib for both BLAS and 
>>> LAPACK). With the CRAN build of R using libRblas.0.dylib, it ran for 
>>> a lot longer than with libRblas.veclib.dylib, but eventually gave the 
>>> same error.
>>>
>>
>> For me, switching to libRblas.0.dylib seems to solve the problem, no 
>> more LAPACK errors. Is this a permanent solution? Will switching BLAS 
>> break anything in the Accelerate framework?
> 
> It is permanent.  See
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#Which-BLAS-is-used-and-how-can-it-be-changed_003f 

Thanks.


-- 
Gad Abraham
Dept. CSSE and NICTA
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
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