rpy2 installation on Ubuntu
I'm pretty new to Linux and I'm having some serious trouble installing Rpy2. I had an older versions of Rpy2 installed by the synaptic package manager, but I needed an updated version and removed it (all files in the Rpy2 directory as described in the Rpy2 documentation). I downloaded the tar.gz. from SourceForge and ran this code: tar -xzf rpy2-2.1.8.tar.gz cd rpy2-2.1.8 python setup.py build install It appeared to be copying files as it should, but then multiple pages of error messages (highlighted in bold ) just start floating: running build_ext Configuration for R as a library: include