[Rpy] windows support

2012-06-20 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Hi, I just played around with rpy2 on a linux box and I like it a lot. What is the current state concering rpy2 for windows ? As far as I know there is no support for rpy2 or am I wrong ? Kind Regards, Uwe -- Dr. rer. nat. Uwe Schmitt Leitung F/E Mathematik mineway GmbH Gebäude 4 Im Helmersw

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-20 Thread Laurent Gautier
On 2012-06-20 11:25, Uwe Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > I just played around with rpy2 on a linux box and I like it a lot. Thanks. There are certainly rough edge, please do not hesitate to bring up problematic use-cases or suggest patches (here or on the bitbucket page). > > What is the current state

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-20 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Hi, my question had a background: Currently I'm developing a framework for LCMS-data analysis (see http://emzed.ethz.ch), where I want to access some R libraries from Python. In the current version I resort to data exchange via file system plus calling R via os.system, which is quite ugly. Can y

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-20 Thread Laurent Gautier
The effort would be commensurate with: - how truly "windows build-able" the current code base is. I can't tell, since I am applying patches for win32-related features when they are making sense from reading them, and they are not breaking things for POSIX-like systems. - how confortable a give

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-20 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Hi Laurent, I will give it a try soon. I implemented some basic Python wrapper for the open-ms project using Cython an got some experiences with the visual c compilers. Regards, Uwe Am 20.06.2012 14:37, schrieb Laurent Gautier: > The effort would be commensurate with: > > - how truly "windows

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-20 Thread Christoph Gohlke
Hi, FWIW: I have built rpy2 for 32 and 64 bit Python several times in the past with Visual Studio and Intel ICL compilers. Compiling and linking was not a problem. However, none of those builds were stable and would crash on import. The problem was that R and Python use different, incompatible

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-20 Thread Laurent Gautier
On 2012-06-20 18:06, Christoph Gohlke wrote: > Hi, > > FWIW: I have built rpy2 for 32 and 64 bit Python several times in the > past with Visual Studio and Intel ICL compilers. Compiling and linking > was not a problem. However, none of those builds were stable and would > crash on import. The probl