安装Rpy2 Windows 10时Egg_info错误

Question

I want to install rpy2 and next install anaconda with spyder to use python.

I tried this command

py -m pip install rpy2

but it gave me this error

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-o27u4aog\rpy2\

I tried to install unroll as well with similar pip command and it gave me similar error

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-nyfqo09i\uroll\

Like suggested for example here I succesfully did

py -m pip install --upgrade setuptools

and

py -m pip install ez_setup

but nothing helped. I had to unistall anaconda to --upgrade setuptools looking foward to install rpy2 but now I dont know what to do more.

I am using windows 10, R 3.2.5 and python 3.5.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Use precompiled binaries.

See: http://rpy2.readthedocs.io/en/default/overview.html#microsoft-s-windows-precompiled-binaries

The main page for rpy2 will be updated to indicate that pip install is not the easiest way to install rpy2 on Windows.