For faster R use OpenBLAS instead: better than ATLAS, trivial to switch to on Ubuntu.
For faster R use OpenBLAS instead: better than ATLAS, trivial to switch to on Ubuntu [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
R speeds up when the Basic Linear Algebra System (BLAS) it uses is well tuned. The reference BLAS that comes with R and Ubuntu isn't very fast. On my machine, it takes 9 minutes to run a well known...
@misc{_for_????,
	title = {For faster {R} use {OpenBLAS} instead: better than {ATLAS}, trivial to switch to on {Ubuntu}},
	shorttitle = {For faster {R} use {OpenBLAS} instead},
	url = {http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~nmv/2013/07/09/for-faster-r-use-openblas-instead-better-than-atlas-trivial-to-switch-to-on-ubuntu/},
	abstract = {R speeds up when the Basic Linear Algebra System (BLAS) it uses is well tuned. The reference BLAS that comes with R and Ubuntu isn't very fast. On my machine, it takes 9 minutes to run a well known...},
	urldate = {2013-10-14TZ},
	journal = {Nathan VanHoudnos},
	keywords = {R}
}

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