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authorshivaram <shivaram.venkataraman@gmail.com>2013-09-09 22:07:58 -0700
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Merge pull request #917 from pwendell/master
Document libgfortran dependency for MLBase
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This guide will outline the functionality supported in MLlib and also provides
an example of invoking MLlib.
+# Dependencies
+MLlib uses the [jblas](https://github.com/mikiobraun/jblas) linear algebra library, which itself
+depends on native Fortran routines. You may need to install the
+[gfortran runtime library](https://github.com/mikiobraun/jblas/wiki/Missing-Libraries)
+if it is not already present on your nodes. MLlib will throw a linking error if it cannot
+detect these libraries automatically.
+
# Binary Classification
Binary classification is a supervised learning problem in which we want to