Contributing to the development of the ropenbals package

Package website: https://prdm0.github.io/ropenblas

Summary

• 1 General information
• 2 Main contributions

1 General information

The ropenblas package introduces a simple way, through its functions, to link the library OpenBLAS with the language R. In addition, with ropenblas it is possible to link different versions of R, making it possible to easily switch between the different versions of R compiled.

The package currently works only on GNU/Linux systems and is independent of the official repositories of the user’s GNU/Linux distribution. This allows the R user on GNU/Linux systems who is the administrator of the operating system - OS to link the latest versions of R and OpenBLAS as well as switch between versions if they wish.

2 Main contributions

The main contributions to the ropenblas package are listed below:

1. Revision of the code to detect possible inconsistent points that may cause the functions provided by the package to fail in some GNU / Linux distribution;
2. Test the package on different GNU / Linux distributions, reporting possible inconsistencies at https://github.com/prdm0/ropenblas/issues;
3. Improved English for package messages and documentation;
4. Improved writing of job documentation;
5. Allow Windows system users to take advantage of the ropenblas() function. One suggestion would be to link precompiled binaries from the OpenBLAS library and distribute them in a inst/ directory.