R Batteries Included (R 4.6.1 with OpenBLAS and Intel MKL)
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Do you want a free, zero-config performance upgrade for R on Windows?
Switching linear algebra libraries on Linux is a breeze, but doing it on Windows is particularly complicated. R on Windows provides a numerical library, libRblas, that just works but that can be much faster. To solve this, I created R Batteries Included.
R Batteries Included is an R distribution that offers a simplified installer featuring:
- Automatic CPU tuning: Detects your hardware to maximize linear algebra speeds.
- Library flexibility: Choose between OpenBLAS and Intel MKL for faster linear algebra operations.
- Dependencies handling: Ships pre-configured components so you can install packages from source (e.g., GitHub) without seeing C/C++ compiler errors.
No code modifications. No workflow changes. Just your exact same scripts, running faster.
See the plots showing the speed gains. I used the famous AT&T Benchmark.
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