Actually,  what  distribution  of R is supported? I assume part of the
problem  is  that rpy2 depends on some custom built R package, not the
standard one from 
http://cran.opensourceresources.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.13.1-win.exe

thanks


Monday, August 22, 2011, 10:45:36 AM, you wrote:

> Hello Rpy-list,

> I  am  using  the  latest  version of the ActiveState Python Community
> version and have run the latest RPY2 msi installer from sourceforge. I
> have  installed  both  32 and 64 bits R 2.13.1 (it doesn't help if the
> installation   is   just   32   bits),   but   am   bugging   out   at
> rinterface\__init__.py lines 37-54

> # Win32-specific code copied from RPy-1.x
> if sys.platform == 'win32':
>     import win32api
>     os.environ['PATH'] += ';' + os.path.join(R_HOME, 'bin')
>     os.environ['PATH'] += ';' + os.path.join(R_HOME, 'modules')
>     os.environ['PATH'] += ';' + os.path.join(R_HOME, 'lib')

>     # Load the R dll using the explicit path
>     # First try the bin dir:
>     Rlib = os.path.join(R_HOME, 'bin', 'R.dll')
>     # Then the lib dir:
>     if not os.path.exists(Rlib):
>         Rlib = os.path.join(R_HOME, 'lib', 'R.dll')
>     # Otherwise fail out!
>     if not os.path.exists(Rlib):
>         raise RuntimeError("Unable to locate R.dll within %s" % R_HOME)

>     win32api.LoadLibrary( Rlib )


> as the code assumes that the R.dll is in R_HOME\bin or lib. in fact it
> is in "c:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.1\bin\i386\".

> Even  if i copy the R.dll and other files from i386 to this directory,
> it doesn't work as it fails to load the library.

> What could be the problem?

> Please answer both to the group and to j...@jiripik.com.

> thanks. 




-- 
Best regards,
 Jiri                            mailto:r...@jiripik.com


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