R_user not defined , rpy2 - django

I want to use R from django app .Now I am in a huge mess .
--> I have installed rpy2 for that .
---> I am able to run everything from Python IDE
eg .
import rpy2.rinterface as rinterface
rinterface.initr()
or
import rpy2.robjects as something
As I open Python from cmd or in django file .I am getting error R_USER not defined
I am able to write separate .py files and access R but not from django and python shell .
Please help me Out!!!!
Or please tell what else I can use to call R functions from Python

Just create a new system variable R_USER in Environment Variables, with its value being the current user name, and the problem should goes away.
Note, this is clearly for windows platform only.
Otherwise you won't get R_USER exception in the first place.

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How to show variable data for debugging in django

I still cant figure out, how to debug in django best way. For example, I created a dict and now I would like to check all the data that is arranged in that dict. How can I force django to show a debugging page in browser and print out the dict in a comfortable way?
To get the variables value in browser using Django is possible naturally only if:
DEBUG=True is set for the app and some error occurs.
Instead you can use one of the following(if you already know the line/variables to debug):
print(dict_var)
From your view: return HttpResponse(dict_var)
Other way to debug is to use Python Debugger.
Add following line in your code to put a breakpoint and then debug line by line.
import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
And run your app using
python -m pdb manage.py runserver
PyCharm
You can use the debugger of PyCharm an ide developed by JetBrains.
It's free and it helps you in so many other way.
And if you are a student the premium version it's free.
Download Link
Edit:
Then run the program in debug mode and set a breakpoint.
To set a breakpoint just click the number of line in the left of the view.

Can't save figure as .eps [gswin32c is not recognized]

I'm using Enthought Canopy with PyLab(64-bit). For my report I need to use Latex (XeLaTex) and the plots are done with matplotlib.
To have an first idea I just copied the second example from http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html and compiled it. It looks fine and I can save it as a normal png without problems. However if i try to save it as .eps or.ps it does not work and an error appears:
invalid literal for int() with base 10: "
Additionaly in the Pylab shell it shows:
'gswin32c' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file'.
If I save it as .pdf I have no problems except the text is all black instead of being red and blue. This is a problem because in my plots I have two axes and I need them colorized for better readability.
If I then try to delete some lines from the example given (all text) I still cannot save it as .eps nor .ps. I can't figure out the problem and all the other topics related to this have not given me an insight. So I really need your help because I can't use .png for my report.
Thank you in advance!!!
I finally managed to solve this problem. It might look weird but maybe other people can benefit from it.
The solution might depend upon the software you use. I use Enthought Canopy (Python) and MikTeX 2.9 under W8 64bit.
If you want to output .ps and .eps files with matplotlib using the 'text.usetex': True option then you will encounter the problem posted above.
Solution:
Download and install Ghostscript (32bit) from http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html.
Download ps2eps-1.68.zip from http://www.tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps. The proceeding is given in the manual, however I like to point out the part with the environment variables. In this last step you need to go to Control Panel --> System --> Advanced system settings. Then click on the header 'Advanced' and on the bottom of the window you see 'Environment Variables' on which you click. Then you use the 'New'-Button for User Variables for USERNAME. Then you type in as variable name 'ps2eps' and for variable value you type in the actual path where you have saved the ps2eps.pl file. In my case this is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\ps2eps\bin\'. You can check if you type 'ps2eps' in the command-window.
Download xpdfbin-win-3.03.zip from http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html. You only need the file 'pdftops.exe'. However I could not assign a path like in step 2. I solved this by putting the 'pdftops.exe' in the MikTeX 2.9 folder. The exact location for me was 'C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64'.
I was then able to save figures as .ps and have no more any error messages. Remember to use the settings proposed on http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html under 'postscript options'.
In myself used the following settings:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rc('font', **{'family':'serif', 'serif':['Computer Modern Roman'],
'monospace':['Computer Modern Typewriter']})
params = {'backend': 'ps',
'text.latex.preamble': [r"\usepackage{upgreek}",
r"\usepackage{siunitx}",
r"\usepackage{amsmath}",
r"\usepackage{amstext}",],
'axes.labelsize': 18,
#'axes.linewidth': 1,
#'text.fontsize':17,
'legend.fontsize': 10,
'xtick.labelsize': 13,
#'xtick.major.width' : 0.75,
'ytick.labelsize': 13,
'figure.figsize': [8.8,6.8],
#'figure.dpi': 120,
'text.usetex': True,
'axes.unicode_minus': True,
'ps.usedistiller' : 'xpdf'}
mpl.rcParams.update(params)
mpl.rcParams.update({'figure.autolayout':True})
(whereas many of the params are just for my own purpose later in the plots)
As a beginner I am not well informed about the dependence from the 'backend' used if you are running a script from your python console. I however used this without any --pylab settings in before and I do not know if one needs to switch the backend manually if he is working already in a console with a specific matplotlib backend.
I had the same problem and my problem was a font adjustment in the python code that is :
from matplotlib import rc
rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
rc('text', usetex=True)
when I remove this iit works fine and now i can save eps.
So be sure that any shortest working example is working for you or not then check the font and other style edits in your code. This may help.

Python Relative Path Import from subfolder

first post to SO, so if I'm missing some details, please forgive me.
Is there a way to use relative paths from another subfolder without resorting to modifying sys.path via os? Eventually this will be run from a cgi webserver so I'd rather stay away from any -m arguments to python.exe.
I'm using Python 2.7.3 and have a file/directory structure of the following :
| myprog.py
|
+---functions
| myfunctions.py
| __init__.py
|
\---subfolder
mysub.py
In the root, I have a single .py file, called myprog.py :
#file .\myprog.py
from functions import *
hello("Hi from Main")
In the functions folder I have two files, init.py, myfunctions.py :
#The File: functions\__init__.py :
from myfunctions import *
#The File: functions\myfunctions.py :
def hello(sometext):
print sometext
And finally, in the subfolder, I have :
#The File: subfolder\mysub.py :
from ..functions import *
hello("Hi From mysubprogram")
The myprog.py executes fine (when running python.exe myprog.py from the parent folder), printing "Hi From Main", however, the mysub.py (when executed from the subfolder) keeps putting the error: ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package
I have tried varying combinations in mysub.py such as from ..functions.myfunctions import * yet none yields the desired result.
I have read a few relevant articles :
using __init__.py
How to import classes defined in __init__.py
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html#packages-in-multiple-directories
But just can't figure this out. Oh, and once I get this working, I would like to remove the import *'s wherever possible, however, I'd rather not have to put the full paths to the hello function each time it's called, so any advise there or on cleaning up the init.py (using all or in another manner) would be a bonus.
Thanks Blckknght EDIT, I also found the below :
Relative imports for the billionth time
Which, if what I'm requesting isn't possible, perhaps I'm asking the wrong thing. If this is just outright bad practice, is the right way to accomplish my goal using sys.path or is there something else someone can recommend (like not calling functions from ../folders) ?
I think the issue has to do with how you are running the mysub.py script. Python doesn't tend to do well with scripts in packages, since the main script module is always named __main__ rather than its usual name.
I think you can fix this by running mysub with python -m subfolder.mysub, or by manipulating the __package__ variable in mysub.py (as described by PEP 366). It's not neat, unfortunately.

Testing a python recipe

I want to run a python recipe I found, but I don't know how as it imports from another one!
For example, I would like to test the code here.
I have downloaded it and also downloaded this one as it uses it.
So how can I test the this code by passing the needed parameter as below?!
>>> G = {'s':{'u':10, 'x':5}, 'u':{'v':1, 'x':2}, 'v':{'y':4}, 'x':{'u':3, 'v':9, 'y':2}, 'y':{'s':7, 'v':6}}
>>> Dijkstra.Dijkstra(G,'s','v')
I have added the two files in one of the python paths, and imported both but still get error
Could you please give me some advice on simple way to test this code?
You really should put the files in your current directory if you are just testing, instead of putting them in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ as that path is reserved for the Python standard library.
It seems that the second recipe, the Priority Dictionary, needs to be put in a file called priodict.py since the Dijkstra code imports from priodict. So, you should have the following files in your current directory: Dijkstra.py, priodict.py. Then you can just start Python and do import Dijkstra, and it should work.
Also, don't modify the Dijkstra code to remove the import as you apparently did...

Error when trying to load Django custom filters into template

I've inherited a Django application that I need to modify using a custom template filter. I'm absolutely new to Django and am quite mystified by it. I thought I had followed the instructions exactly, and also followed all the advice from other posts on the subject, but I still get an error when I include the following line in my template:
{% load mlgb_custom_filters %}
My directory structure is as follows:
mysite (i.e. the project)
__init__.py
mlgb/ (i.e. the app)
__init__.py
templatetags/
__init__.py
mlgb_custom_filters.py
The code of mlgb_custom_filters.py is as follows:
from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
register = template.Library()
#register.filter(name='fix_dashes')
#stringfilter
def fix_dashes( value ):
return value.replace( '--', 'DASH' )
if __name__ == "__main__":
testvar = fix_dashes( "ouch -- ow -- I hate django" )
print testvar
As you can see, I've added a 'name = main' section to let me run it in standalone mode, just to check that there are no errors in that particular file, and it's fine when run in standalone mode.
Based on someone else's advice, I've also tried importing it into another file, just to see whether there was an import error, and once again, it was fine if I added this to the end of settings.py (while using the dev server):
try:
import mlgb.templatetags.mlgb_custom_filters
except Exception, exc:
print 'error importing mlgb_custom_filters'
print exc
Also, INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py includes the line 'mysite.mlgb', and I have also tried putting just 'mlgb' instead of 'mysite.mlgb' there, as yet another person suggested. And I restarted the dev server every time I made a change.
I think I have tried every single suggestion that I have found on the web until now. Does anyone have any new ideas? Could it be anything to do with the fact that I have inherited a directory structure where the template directory is not within the same structure as the application, i.e. it is not under mysite? Scraping the barrel for ideas here! I hope someone can help.
OK, in the situation that I was in when first posting this question, it seems all I actually needed to do was touch a wsgi file under my appname/apache directory to force the application to be refreshed. Yesterday's initial answer was a red herring. Basically I should have touched the file myproject/myapp/apache/myapp.wsgi. Then maybe restart Apache for good measure? But the confusion was caused by the fact that apparently it wasn't enough either simply to restart Apache or to manually recompile the Python. In order to pick up my changes, seems like I needed to touch that wsgi file. Then all is well.
I can now post an answer to my own question thanks to the help of my colleague Masud Khokhar, whose brilliant detective work has saved the day. To recap, my application worked fine until I added a 'load' statement to one of my template files, to load a 'custom filters' module. Masud identified that now I needed to use a full/absolute path to the template file in urls.py instead of a relative one as I had before (and which worked before, until it needed to load the custom filters module). So, in urls.py, I had a section of code as follows:
url(r'^book/(?P<object_id>\d+)/$', 'list_detail.object_detail',
kwargs={
'queryset':Book.objects.all(),
'template_name' : 'mlgb/mlgb_detail.html'
},
name='mlgb_detail'
),
Instead of this:
'template_name' : 'mlgb/mlgb_detail.html'
I needed something like this:
'template_name' : '/THE_FULL_PATH/mlgb/templates/mlgb/mlgb_detail.html'
Made that change - sorted! Thank you once again, Masud.