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Requirements

Minimum:

Python >= 2.4
R >= 2.8, compiled with the option --enable-R-shlib

Recommended:

Python 2.6
R >= 2.11, compiled with the option --enable-R-shlib

Released versions

Automated installation

Fetching and installing the latest release from Pypi can be done by running easy_install

easy_install rpy2

or pip

pip install rpy2

rpy2 is also packaged for a number of systems: Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat/Fedora, openSUSE, Gentoo, Fink, Macports (OS X), FreshPorts (BSD). The Debian packages maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel are usually updated shortly after new releases, but other distribution can have several months of delay, or even a year.

Manual installation

Source and binary packages are available at:

Pypi
Sourceforge.

The documentation for the released version has further instructions regarding the installation process.

Development versions

The primary repository the rpy2 source is now on Mercurial, and at bitbucket: http://www.bitbucket.org/lgautier/rpy2/ .

When using the command-line client, fetching the repository is achieved with:

hg clone https://www.bitbucket.org/lgautier/rpy2

and switching to the branch of interest with:

hg update -C [branch_name]

A list of branch names can be obtained with:

hg branches

The documentation for the development version has further instructions regarding the installation process.