#1 Starting from an R data frame this time: r_df = ro.DataFrame({'int_values': ro.IntVector([1,2,3]),'str_values': ro.StrVector(['abc', 'def', 'ghi'])}) print(r_df) int_values str_values 1 1 abc 2 2 def 3 3 ghi with localconverter(ro.default_converter + pandas2ri.converter): pd_from_r_df = ro.conversion.rpy2py(r_df) print(pd_from_r_df) int_values str_values 1 1 abc 2 2 def 3 3 ghi