Uninstalling is surely not needed:
rpy anr rpy2 can coexist peacefully.
2008/10/9 Srikanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thank your for the clarification. I tried the old way of replacing a dot
> with an underscore but it didn't work. Now I understand why. I moved back
> to using RPy 1.x because of my problems, but am going to re-install RPy 2.xx
> and try the solution.
> Thanks again for both the answer and for your work on RPy. I appreciate it
> greatly.
> Srikanth.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Laurent Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/10/9 Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >>> r.dev.off()
>> >>> ...
>> >>> LookupError: 'dev' not found
>> >>
>> >> Python is not R. The dot ("."), like in a large number of other
>> >> language, has a particular semantic meaning and therefore is
>> >> not a valid character for variable names.
>> >>
>> >> r['dev.off']() is what you are looking for.
>> >
>> > Does the rpy v1 style r.dev_off() still work in rpy v2?
>>
>> Not directly. I have a sketchy attempt at making it possible (will be
>> there for the 2.0 release, still scheduled for November), but it will
>> not be the default.
>>
>> > Personally I
>> > much prefer this to r['dev.off']() for readability.
>>
>> This is indeed saving 4 keystrokes, but have the significant
>> disadvantage of being the likely source of a lot of problem to the
>> unaware user.
>> What if there is a user-defined function called 'dev_off' in the R
>> search path ?
>>
>> To save you the effort of starting comments on conversion rules such as
>> * '.' -> '_'
>> * '_' -> '__',
>> I'll be bringing up that '___' in python cannot be disambiguated (can
>> be either '._' or '_.' in R).
>>
>> rpy2 will be trying to be 'safe by default'.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Peter
>> >
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