Bug#874339: ITP: rpy2-2.8 -- Python interface to the GNU R language and environment

[Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org>

* Package name    : rpy2-2.8
  Version         : 2.8.6
  Upstream Author : Laurent Gautier <lgautier@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://rpy2.bitbucket.io/
* License         : GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description     : Python interface to the GNU R language and environment

 This Debian package provides RPy2, a very simple yet robust Python interface
to the GNU R Programming Language. It can manage different types of R objects,
and can execute arbitrary R functions, including graphic functions. Rpy2 is a
rewrite and extension of the older RPy interface.

 Rpy2 is already in Debian, however Rpy2 2.9 no longer supports Python 2, so
the Python 2 package was recently removed from Debian. Since sagemath depends
on rpy2 while using Python 2, this package reintroduces the Python 2 version of
Rpy2, based on the 2.8 series.