Install R and rpy2

lib_r_rpy2_install

$> sudo apt-get remove r-base
$> sudo apt-get install gfortran
$> sudo apt-get install libreadline6 libreadline6-dev
$> sudo apt-get install liblapack3gf

$> cd ~
$> sudo apt-get source r-base
$> cd r-base-2.10.1

$> sudo ./configure --enable-R-shlib --with-x=no --prefix=/opt/R --with-x=no --with-readline=no
$> sudo make
$> sudo make install

$> ls -l /opt/R
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-12 11:18 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2012-01-12 11:10 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-01-12 11:10 share

$> ls -l /opt/R/lib64/R/lib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  376930 2012-01-12 11:18 libRblas.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3040131 2012-01-12 11:18 libRlapack.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8899479 2012-01-12 11:10 libR.so

$> sudo ln -s /opt/R/lib64/R/lib/*.so /usr/lib/

$> ls -l /usr/lib/libR*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2012-01-12 11:19 /usr/lib/libRblas.so -> /opt/R/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2012-01-12 11:19 /usr/lib/libRlapack.so -> /opt/R/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2012-01-12 11:19 /usr/lib/libR.so -> /opt/R/lib64/R/lib/libR.so

$> pip install rpy2