rpy2: Python interface to R

Description

rpy2 is a redesign and rewrite of rpy. It is providing a low-level interface to R, a proposed high-level interface, including wrappers to graphical libraries, as well as R-like structures and functions.

License

• GPL 2+

Upstream Contact

• https://github.com/rpy2/rpy2

Special Installation Instructions

In the Sage distribution, rpy2 is a “semi-standard” package: It will be automatically installed by the Sage distribution if a suitable system installation of R is detected by configure. (Note that Sage no longer ships and installs its own copy of R.)

Type

standard

Dependencies

• $(PYTHON)

• $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

• cffi: Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code

• jinja2: General purpose template engine for Python

• pycparser: Parser of the C language in Python

• pytz: Timezone definitions for Python

• tzlocal: Python timezone information for the local timezone

Version Information

package-version.txt:

3.4.5

version_requirements.txt:

rpy2 >=3.3

Equivalent System Packages

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S python-rpy2

conda-forge

$ conda install rpy2 r-lattice

Debian/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install python3-rpy2

FreeBSD

$ sudo pkg install math/py-rpy2

MacPorts

$ sudo port install py-rpy2

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install python3\$\{PYTHON_MINOR\}-rpy2

See https://repology.org/project/rpy2/versions

If the system package is installed and if the (experimental) option --enable-system-site-packages is passed to ./configure, then ./configure will check if the system package can be used.