Installing RPy2

R is a popular scripting language used for statistics and data analysis. RPy2 is an interface between R and Python. We will install RPy2 in this recipe.

How to do it...

If you want to install RPy2, choose one of the following options:

• Installing with pip or easy_install.

  RPy2 is available on PYPI, so we can install it with either of the following two commands:

  easy_install rpy2
  

  or

  sudo pip install rpy2
  

• Installing from source.

  We can install RPy2 from the source tar.gz:

  tar -xzf <rpy2_package>.tar.gz
  cd <rpy2_package>
  python setup.py build install