On 07/17/2012 09:16 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 17 July 2012 at 12:37, Tim Booth wrote: | Hi CRAN people, | | There is an issue with python-rpy on Ubuntu, when installed from the | CRAN repository. (I read the info on | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ and saw the note that this | package is experimental but you are happy to receive feedback on it.) | After adding the appropriate CRAN repo: | | % sudo apt-get install python-rpy | [ ... installs various dependencies ... ] | % echo import rpy | python | RuntimeError: No module named _rpy2151 | | RPy module can not be imported. Please check if your rpy | installation supports R 2.15.1. If you have multiple R versions | installed, you may need to set RHOME before importing rpy. For | example: | | >>> from rpy_options import set_options | >>> set_options(RHOME='c:/progra~1/r/rw2011/') | >>> from rpy import * | | | This is simply because the module needs recompiling with each new R release: | | % apt-get -b source python-rpy | % sudo dpkg -i *.deb Yes, there is code in the package which hardcodes the then-current version. It is a pretty brain-dead scheme as it forces a rebuild on major.minor changes. | And it all works fine. | | Would it be possible to get this module rebuilt automatically in line | with new releases of r-base-core? Right now I have to hold back updates Your maintainer is guilty as charged. This time I simply forgot to rebuild rpy. Dirk
I went ahead an rebuilt the rpy packages on my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter), so updates for Ubuntu should soon be appearing on CRAN as well. Confirmed that the new builds work fine, at least on 12.04.
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