#77 Please fix the general installation/initialisation problems
Hi,
I have been trying to get rpy to run for a long time now with no success. I have various ubuntu machines (Edgy+Dapper) plus Debian testing and unstable, and old and new installations. Rpy fails on all except a very old debian stable machine. It is always to do with the initialisation of the R object in Python, simply parsing the initial version text or similar. It looks easy to fix for someone who knows the code. This is frustrating as I have written a lot of analysis scripts, now none of them work. I realise this isn't a specific bug, rather its a comment on how rpy is basically broken on newer installations.
Dion
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Hi,
Your friendly Debian maintainer here -- I am unaware of systemic problems of either Debian (testing, unstable) or
Ubuntu (dapper, edgy). One of my Ubuntu system just received a working update from Ubuntu, and I can assure you that
the Debian packages are fine too.
I am not sure if you tried 'apt-get install python-rpy' but it may be of help. If not, please use the rpy list, or
the Debian bug channels with a proper bug report (i.e. preferably with a reproducible example).
Hope this helps, Dirk
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Details? What versions of R, rpy, and python have you been using?
I'm pretty sure rpy it worked for me on Ubuntu Dapper Drake with the default python and R installations (note that this is a fairly old version of R). I'm not at that machine right now so I can't check the details.
You mention "parsing the initial version text or similar", well R-2.3.0 changed the format slightly but the latest rpy copes with this.
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I'm going to close this, since Dirk has verified a working version on Debian and Ubuntu using the Debian/Ubuntu package.