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Installing R package rpy2 from source in Mac OSX yosemite

I'm trying to install R package rpy2 on a new iMac running OSX Yosemite 10.10.1 and having problems. I downloaded a .tar.gz file and got a non zero exit status error message when I tried to install it in R:

install.packages("/Users/SarahiMac/Downloads/rpy2-2.5.4.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source") ERROR: cannot extract package from ‘/Users/SarahiMac/Downloads/rpy2-2.5.4.tar.gz’ Warning message: In install.packages("/Users/SarahiMac/Downloads/rpy2-2.5.4.tar.gz", : installation of package ‘/Users/SarahiMac/Downloads/rpy2-2.5.4.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Per this post, I installed Xcode (6.1.1) and tried to install the package in the terminal as follows:

R CMD INSTALL rpy2-2.5.4.tar.gz

And got following error message:

ERROR: cannot extract package from ‘rpy2-2.5.4.tar.gz’

I also tried to install with R CMD INSTALL --build per one of the comments here and got the same error, and I converted the tar.gz file to a zip file and that didn't work either

Any thoughts? Apologies if I am making an obvious error - I am a novice programmer.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 340

Answers (1)

Carl Witthoft
Carl Witthoft

Reputation: 21502

You need to read things more carefully. rpy2 is a python package to talk to R, not an R package.

Perhaps you want either rPython or rJython , available at CRAN.

Upvotes: 1

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