[ITP] R-2.14.1-1

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 07:30 +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 2/10/2012 4:37 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > Furthermore, is there a reason you use libRblas/libRlapack instead of
> > the system lapack libraries?
> 
> A tough discussion with R developers. They consider the standard Blas
> crippled as non correctly handling NaN.
> 
> For what I saw they have the tendency to make their own version of any
> lib that does not fit on their exact expectation, for the same reason
> they do not consider libtool and have a very unusual build.

Bundling libs is usually a bad idea, and as Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo
all seem to use the system lapack, I'd suggest to do so as well (as done
in Ports).


Yaakov