It was actually compiled as a shared library but I believe the problem was
that I had installed previously from the packages repository as well so I
got several versions installed. Even after removing rpy2 and R through the
software centre and uninstall my installation from source I could still use
Let me guess: R was not compiled as a shared library.
http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-2.2/html/overview.html#req
Try Dirk Eddelbuettel's debian packages.
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README
The latest rpy2 release has so far always be there within days.
L.
On 2011-11-14 16:
To whom it may concern,
I had rpy2 installed but I had to perform a clean installation of Ubuntu.
After that I installed R from the ubuntu software centre plus the rpy2
package. Nonetheless when running the from rpy2 import robjects I get the
following error message:
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpat
