Cannot load rds file

[data2code]

I downloaded the data file from here
https://s3.amazonaws.com/mssm-seq-matrix/human_gsm_meta.rda

read_r() gives an error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/depts/ChemInfo/p/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyreadr/pyreadr.py", line 40, in read_r
parser.parse(path)
File "pyreadr/librdata.pyx", line 117, in pyreadr.librdata.Parser.parse
File "pyreadr/librdata.pyx", line 142, in pyreadr.librdata.Parser.parse
pyreadr.custom_errors.LibrdataError: Unable to convert string to the requested encoding (output buffer too small)

[ofajardo]

I have loaded the rda file in R and it has stored a list object ("meta"). pyreadr unfortunately cannot read R lists (see #8) . Although the error is a bit strange, it is not going to work anyway.

I am afraid you need to install R and use rpy2 to read this file.