OpenBLAS works fine for me - hit the same issue with Python before. Pj.
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:41:59PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd respond to this old thread now that the openblas eigen > error seems to be fixed. I'm interested in using openblas so that > the (as yet not in master) WGCNA package works faster, among other > things: > > https://labs.genetics.ucla.edu/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/Rpackages/WGCNA/faq.html > > > On 06/02/16 08:24, Andreas Enge wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >>I would suggest to drop “--with-lapack”, too. (I haven’t found the time > >>to try building without this flag just now.) The manual says: > >>I don’t remember why I added it in the first place, so I think it’s best > >>to drop it, considering that the manual tells us only to do it if we > >>know what we want to achieve by adding it. > >I did, and it still builds on arm. > > Shall I push the attached patch to core-updates? I tested it on > x86_64. Or, would you mind testing it on arm please Andreas? > > Thanks, > ben > From 012c013661c739b8d90be8bcbfce13349dcaee89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ben J Woodcroft <donttrust...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 21:14:12 +1000 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: r: Add openblas input. > > * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r)[inputs]: Add openblas. > [arguments]: Adapt configure flags. > --- > gnu/packages/statistics.scm | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm > index 990f2fc..e34bcec 100644 > --- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm > +++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm > @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ be output in text, PostScript, PDF or HTML.") > (lambda _ (zero? (system* "make" "install-info"))))) > #:configure-flags > '("--with-cairo" > + "--with-blas=openblas" > "--with-libpng" > "--with-jpeglib" > "--with-libtiff" > @@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ be output in text, PostScript, PDF or HTML.") > ("pango" ,pango) > ("curl" ,curl) > ("tzdata" ,tzdata) > + ("openblas" ,openblas) > ("gfortran" ,gfortran) > ("icu4c" ,icu4c) > ("libjpeg" ,libjpeg) > -- > 2.9.2 > --