🐍 🍽️ RDS

py8rds (python ate RDS) provides pure-Python deserialization of R .rds files, allowing you to load R data directly into Python without requiring an R installation.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+

Installation

Use pip to install directly from the repo

pip install git+https://github.com/cellgeni/py8rds.git

Usage

import py8rds
df = py8rds.as_data_frame('data_frame.rds')
adata = py8rds.as_anndata('seurat.rds')
robj = py8rds.parse_rds('data.rds')
robj.show()

Please check the tutorial.

Details

parse_rds is base function that reads rds into python Robj object that has tree-like structure. Robj has two main functions:

1. show(level=1) shows object structure to specified level.
2. get([inx1,key2]) subsets object by keys. Each Robj has values that are indexed by integers (shown as +N by show function) and slotes/attributes that are indexed by keys (shown as &/*<key> by show function)