Description of problem: In Fedora 11 the rpy package actually contains the rpy2 code. For people that have years of code written to rpy(1) this is a problem. Rpy2 is from the beginning of the development built to coexist with rpy. Therefore, please consider re-adding rpy. In Debian they have python-rpy and python-rpy2. We could do something similar. Cheers.
At this point, probably the best thing to do would be to introduce a rpy1 compatibility package, rather than rename rpy to rpy2. I would be fine with this, but basically this requires the current primary maintainer, Jose to sign off on this. I thought that there was an official policy on this on wiki, but the best I could find is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz/DraftCompatPackages
FWIW I support such move, to introduce an rpy1 package. I have asked in fedora-r-devel and I did not heard any voices against.
Now we just need somebody to volunteer to submit for a review and maintain it. :)
Well??? =) I'm not sure what "submitting for review" and "maintaining" involves, but after spending a full day trying to install this package from source, I'm ready for repository version! If anyone has an rpm ready, please contact me!
Managed to install it! I don't know if this will be useful but I had to make the following changes for rpy 1.0.3 to work in Fedora 11, R 2.10.1, Python 2.6: 1. In src/RPy.h, change #include <Rdevices.h> to #include <Rembedded.h>, as detailed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01500.html 2. In setup.py, line 162, add '/usr/include/R' to the include_dirs list If anyone explains to me what I need to do, I'm happy to make the push for this to be included in F11+ repositories.
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Since this is an RFE, adding FutureFeature keyword. (In reply to comment #5) > Managed to install it! I don't know if this will be useful but I had to make > the following changes for rpy 1.0.3 to work in Fedora 11, R 2.10.1, Python 2.6: > > 1. In src/RPy.h, change #include <Rdevices.h> to #include <Rembedded.h>, as > detailed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01500.html > > 2. In setup.py, line 162, add '/usr/include/R' to the include_dirs list > > If anyone explains to me what I need to do, I'm happy to make the push for this > to be included in F11+ repositories. rpy1 needs to be added as a *new*, separate package in addition to rpy (which will remain at 2.x). In order to do that you need to become a contributor and submit a new package, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers I don't have time to do this myself right, but I would be happy to be a co-maintainer and/or help with the review.
The request for the new package is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591331 Other than the fact that I can not build the pdf docs this is the same package as shipped with F-10.
rpy1 is now in a copr: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jamatos/rpy1/ Closing this old bug out.