On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 18:26 +0000, Peter wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > There have been a couple of threads recently about rpy2 having trouble > locating R on Windows. I have a suggestion to improve the > situation... > > By default the R installer will record the R paths in the registry, > but R is not added to the PATH, nor is the R_HOME environment variable > setup. Therefore for the average Windows installation, using the > registry is the best way to determine where R is (as this requires no > manual setup!). > > Looking at SVN, it seems rpy2 isn't taking advantage of the win32api > module (if installed) to ask the Windows registry where R is > installed. > See rpy/rpy_tools.py for how to do this. I contributed > this code 3 years ago which is why I thought to check for rpy2 as well > (see rpy.py revision 186).
Alright. The 2.0.0 release will not be out before I get that piece in. Thanks, L. > Peter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > rpy-list mailing list > rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
