At some point, we need to rewrite all the existing rpy tools for rpy 2 but right now, rpy 1.03 is something of a necessary wart:
tools/metag_tools/short_reads_figure_high_quality_length.py:from rpy import *
tools/metag_tools/short_reads_figure_score.py:from rpy import *
tools/multivariate_stats/cca.py:from rpy import *
tools/multivariate_stats/kcca.py:from rpy import *
tools/multivariate_stats/kpca.py:from rpy import *
tools/multivariate_stats/pca.py:from rpy import *
tools/ngs_simulation/ngs_simulation.py:from rpy import *
tools/plotting/histogram.py:from rpy import *
tools/plotting/scatterplot.py:from rpy import *
tools/regVariation/best_regression_subsets.py:from rpy import *
tools/regVariation/linear_regression.py:from rpy import *
tools/regVariation/rcve.py:from rpy import *
tools/stats/cor.py:from rpy import *
tools/stats/grouping.py:from rpy import *
tools/stats/gsummary.py:from rpy import *
tools/taxonomy/poisson2test.py:from rpy import *
Specifically, what problem are you having compiling rpy 1.03?
I seem to remember having to hack part of it to recognize R version strings with 2 decimal places...