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Requirements

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

Released versions

Manual installs

Source and binary packages are available at:

• Pypi
• Sourceforge.

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

Less-manual installs

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

easy_install rpy2

rpy2 is also packaged for a number of systems (Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat/Fedora, openSUSE, Gentoo, Fink, Macports).

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 version_2.0.x

or

hg update -C version_2.1.x

or the very experimental

hg update -C version_2.1.x_python3

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

For the time being, the source in Sourceforge's SVN is no longer up-to-date.