Installation

Before pyRserve can be used, R and Rserv have to be installed properly. Installation instructions for both packages are available on their corresponding websites at`<http://www.r-project.org/>`_ and http://packages.python.org/pyRserve/

Installing R from sources

For R being able to run Rserve properly it has to be installed with the –enable-R-shlib option. On Unix this looks like:

tar -xzf R-2.11.1.tar.gz       # or whatever version you are using
cd R-2.11.1
./configure --enable-R-shlib
make
make install

For Windows it might be just enough to install a prepuilt R package. The same might be true for some Linux distributions, just make sure to install a version which also contains all headers necessary for compiling Rserve in the next step.

Installing Rserve

If you have already downloaded the tar file then from your command line run:

R CMD INSTALL Rserve_0.6-2.tar.gz

Installing PyRserve

For the following to work you have to have Python’s setuptools (from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools ) to be installed.

PyRserve requires numpy to be installed (easy_install numpy).

Then from your unix/windows command line run:

easy_install pyRserve