Python and .RData files

python-RData.py

import rpy2.robjects as robjects
import pandas.rpy.common as com
import pandas as pd

## load .RData and converts to pd.DataFrame
robj = robjects.r.load('test.RData')
# iterate over datasets the file
for sets in robj:
    myRData = com.load_data(sets)
    # convert to DataFrame
    if not isinstance(myRData, pd.DataFrame):
        myRData = pd.DataFrame(myRData)

## save pd.DataFrame to R dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [1, 2, 3], 'B': [4, 5, 6], 'C':[7,8,9]},
                index=["one", "two", "three"])
r_dataframe = com.convert_to_r_dataframe(df)

As an alternative for those who would prefer not having to install R in order to accomplish this task (r2py requires it), there is a new package "pyreadr" which allows reading RData and Rds files directly into python without dependencies.

It is a wrapper around the C library librdata, so it is very fast.

You can install it easily with pip:

pip install pyreadr

As an example you would do:

import pyreadr

result = pyreadr.read_r('/path/to/file.RData') # also works for Rds

# done! let's see what we got
# result is a dictionary where keys are the name of objects and the values python
# objects
print(result.keys()) # let's check what objects we got
df1 = result["df1"] # extract the pandas data frame for object df1

The repo is here: https://github.com/ofajardo/pyreadr