On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Robert Chase
<re...@channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An old version of some software needs rpy to function. We tried using
> rpy2.classic_rpy and it didn't work. I'm getting the following error message
> when I try to install rpy.
>
>> ls
>
> ChangeLog examples MANIFEST.in README rpy.py
> rpy_version.py src
> debian INSTALL.UNIX NEWS rpy_io.py rpy_tools.py
> rpy_wintools.py tests
> doc INSTALL.WINDOWS PKG-INFO rpy_options.py rpy_tools.pyc
> setup.py TODO
>
>
>> python setup.py install
>
> RHOMES= []
> DEBUG= True
> Setting RHOMES to ['/usr/lib64/R']
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "setup.py", line 109, in ?
> RVERSION = rpy_tools.get_R_VERSION(RHOME, force_exec=True)
> File "/tmp/rpy-1.0.3/rpy_tools.py", line 103, in get_R_VERSION
> raise RuntimeError("Couldn't obtain version number from output\n"
> RuntimeError: Couldn't obtain version number from output
> of `R --version'.
>
>> R --version
>
> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
> ...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
That looks like the old problem of the regular expression not
expecting two digits in the minor part of the major.minor.revision
scheme. IIRC that is fixed in the repository - since you are
installing from source it should be easy to grab the latest code
(which hasn't been released as rpy 1.0.4 yet) and try that.
Peter
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