[R] make check fails two tests on RHEL 6 build

[Marc Schwartz]

On Aug 21, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Bennet Fauber <bennet at umich.edu> wrote:

> As a follow-up to my prior post, if I remove --with-blas
> --with-lapack, then the stats test passes:
> 
> ...
> Testing examples for package ‘stats’
>  comparing ‘stats-Ex.Rout’ to ‘stats-Ex.Rout.save’ ... OK
> ...
> 
> Perhaps this is now a question about building R with the Intel MKL
> libraries instead of one about the make check.
> 
> Thanks,  -- bennet

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Hi,

Three quick comments:

1. I don't have hands on experience with MKL, but would direct you to the R Installation and Administration Manual section that is relevant:

  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#MKL

2. Lower level compiling related queries are best directed to the R-Devel list, rather than R-Help. If you need to post follow ups, I would suggest that you subscribe to R-Devel at:

  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

and post there.

3. Notwithstanding the above, I presume that you have specific reasons for using MKL and compiling R from source? Just in case you are not aware, there are pre-compiled RPM binaries of R 2.15.1 available for RHEL from the EPEL:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Installing R from there is as easy as adding the EPEL to your repo list and using 'yum install R' as root (eg. via sudo) from the CLI.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz