[Qgis-developer] Rpy2 broken on win: possible alternatives?

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/16/2012 02:15 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all.
> Currently, most R plugins are broken on windows, because Rpy2 is no
> longer available for that platform.
> Among the ones I find important, manageR, SDA4PP, and Home Range.
> A possible alternative would be to reimplement these functionalities
> through R scripts in Sextante (should be easy for HR, possible for
> SDA4PP, probably unsuitable for manageR).
> Opinions? Takers?
> All the best.
> 

The only holdup is someone to maintain windows compiling of Rpy2, the
main author just doesn't have time/machine to do it. I think we tracked
down a current version for python 2.7 but haven't tried it yet. Once
tested could be re-added to osgeo4w.

Here's the link Giovanni found, can someone please test
https://bitbucket.org/lgautier/rpy2/issue/85/ive-tried-to-compile-rpy2-under-windows-xp

Thanks,
Alex