Not necessarily. rpy2-2.0.8 can mostly do what you like, however may be
not as simply / optimally as the rpy2-2.1.x series could.
My recommendation would be to go for the 2.1.x series, or the 2.2.0-dev
series if you are of the adventurous kind.
There is also more documentation for those, more examples, and
optimization hints (which when followed are believed to make rpy2 >=
2.1.0 the most efficient and versatile Python-to-R bridge).
2.1.x and 2.2-dev series are currently working fine on POSIX systems
(Linux, BSD, etc...), but Windows development is currently halted until
there is support for it. In the meanwhile, you could consider installing
a linux on a virtual machine ("virtualbox", or a paying solution if you
have the resources for it - "Parallels" for example).
If your application must also interface with Windows components, you
could consider a client-server approach.
L.
PS: May be you meant "factanal" instead of "factoran" ?
On 8/7/10 5:58 PM, Andrew Walsh wrote:
> Yes thanks Laurent.
> So if I want to use factoran from R stats package I presume this means
> my only option is to install Linux somewhere rather than use windows
> (if I want to use it from Rpy2 which I do).
>
> Andrew.
>
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Laurent Gautier<lgaut...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So we'll all assume that you both found out that:
>>
>> - rpy2.robjects.packages only exists for rpy2>= 2.1.0
>>
>> - the windows binaries are currently stuck in the past, 2.0.8 being the
>> latest version available.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/7/10 12:05 PM, Andrew Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>> Huge apologies everyone. I thought I looked through the list but
>>> obviously not very well at all.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Andrew Walsh<tsar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have installed Rpy2 v 2.08 under Windows XP 32. I want to do a
>>>> factor analysis from the R stats package.
>>>> From the RPY2 documentation I need to import rpy2 packages. I find I
>>>> can import rpy2 and rpy2.objects but rpy2.robjects.packages cannot be
>>>> found.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> import rpy2
>>>>>>> import rpy2.robjects
>>>>>>> import rpy2.robjects.packages
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in<module>
>>>> import rpy2.robjects.packages
>>>> ImportError: No module named packages
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions please?
>>>>
>>>
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