Question

I cant seem to install Rpy2 for python. Initially I ran across the problem where it displayed the following error.

Tried to guess R's HOME but no R command in the PATH.

But then I followed instructions in the following thread: trouble installing rpy2 on win7 (R 2.12, Python 2.5)

where by I placed and copied all the files in R\R-2.12.1\bin\i386 to the R\R-2.12.1\bin and then set my environment path to point to R\R-2.12.1. Now trying to install it from source again..

python setup.py run

I get the same error. If I set the path variable to R\R-2.12.1\bin\ then I get the following error as showed by the person who gave the second answer

ValueError: Invalid substring in string

That thread went out of ideas so I thought a year from now if there are new ways to work around this.

EDIT = once

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Check the rpy-mailing list on July 18th. There is slight progress on the Windows front for rpy2, and people are reporting some success running it.