ANN: RPy 0.3.1

[Walter Moreira]

Hello.

I have release a bugfix version of RPy, 0.3.1, for Unix platforms.  I
strongly suggest to anyone using version 0.3 to update to this
release, since it is far more stable.  Enjoy.

    http://rpy.sourceforge.net


WHAT IS RPy?

RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R
Programming Language (http://www.r-project.org).  It can manage all
kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions (including
the graphic functions).  All the errors from the R language are
converted to Python exceptions.  Any module that later were installed
on the R system, can easily be used from within Python, without
introducing any changes.


CHANGES IN RPy 0.3.1

Fixed bugs

o There was several memory leaks due to bad management of Python
  refcounts.

o There was wrong synchronization of the thread running the R event
  loop and the calls to the R interpreter.

o There was a bug with signal handling which caused segfault when
  'Ctrl-C' were pressed.

o The R event loop shouldn't be run in non-interactive sessions.

o The i/o Python callbacks were wrong synchronized with the R event
  loop thread.

New features

o Added a rpy_version symbol.


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Walter Moreira   <>  Centro de Matematica  <>  Universidad de la Republica
email: walterm at cmat.edu.uy  <>  Home Page: http://www.cmat.edu.uy/~walterm