[R] Rpy and RSPython

[Weiwei Shi]

Hi,
I tried to install RSPython, here is my problem:
I load the env variables correctly as below:
#------------------------------
# R section
#------------------------------
R_HOME=/usr/lib/R
PYTHONPATH=${R_HOME}/library/RSPython/Python:${R_HOME}/library/RSPython/libs
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${R_HOME}/bin

export R_HOME PYTHONPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

When I run python and do:
import RS

here is the error:
ImportError: /usr/lib/R/library/RSPython/libs/RSInternal.so: undefined
symbol: R_GlobalEnv

I googled and found I did not have $R_HOME/bin/libR.so since I
installed R from binary package.

My question is, should I have to re-install R from source? ( I think I
have to, but want to make sure here :)


When I tried to re-install R by following R installation and Admin
intro, and I run
./configure --enable-R-shlib
I got the following error:
configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available
I don't know why.

from R, 
version

platform i686-redhat-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    1.0
year     2005
month    04
day      18
language R

My third question:
can Rpy save this trouble? In my understanding, Rpy needs that libR.so
too. Am I right?

Many thanks for people using python and R.

weiwei

On 6/10/05, François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> [Weiwei Shi]
> 
> > I am thinking to use one of them but not sure which one is better. I
> > think Rpy cannot call python from R while the PRPython can in
> > two-directional calling.  Am I right?
> 
> s/PRPython/RSPython/ ? :-)
> 
> This is also what I understood.  Yet, despite the uni-directionality of
> RPy, this is what I chose for my personal usage (probably more handy to
> use, or easy to install -- but the main point was that RPy guaranteed
> to be more stable and never crash!).  I think I recently read somewhere
> that they were plans for undusting RSPython, and then said to myself:
> "Should re-evaluate once done.".
> 
> Surely that for now, RPy is quite sufficient for my simple needs.
> 
> --
> François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
> 


-- 
Weiwei Shi, Ph.D

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