Error import rpy: No module named _rpy2062

[Diwaker Gupta]

Binary package hint: python-rpy

Problem: the Python module for the language R doesn't work
How to reproduce:
$ python -c "import rpy"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpy.py", line 134, in <module>
    """ % RVERSION)
RuntimeError: No module named _rpy2062

Cause:
R is version 2.6.2 in Hardy, but python-rpy only supports up to 2.6.1. This is broken, and trivially easy to fix.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with all the latest updates.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 28 10:25:00 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: python-rpy 1.0.1-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=.:/home/username/local/bin:/usr/bin:/home/username/software/forrest//bin:/home/username/software/utils/:/home/username/.kde/bin:/usr/games/:/usr/local/kde/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:.:/home/username/local/bin:/usr/bin:/home/username/software/forrest//bin:/home/username/software/utils/:/home/username/.kde/bin:/usr/games/:/usr/local/kde/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: rpy
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Mike DePalatis (depalatis)]

So... is there a solution? I just ran into this problem, too.

[Joost Cassee (jcassee)]

Looks like RPy needs to be upgraded to 1.0.2:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1931617&group_id=48422&atid=453021

[netzberg (netzberg)]

See my post/solution in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rpy/+bug/128180/comments/30

[Stefan Schmieta (sschmieta)]

I don't understand why this bug has been open for so long. It is very easy to fix with the existing source package: tighten the build dependency on r-base-dev to r-base-dev (= 2.6.2) and rebuild. That will generate the required _rpy2062 and resolve the problem.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This is the same root bug as bug #128180; marking as a duplicate.