AsIs class in R dataframe conversion prevents easy plotting w/ ggplot2

[benjschiller]

When using pandas.rpy.common.convert_to_r_dataframe to convert pandas DataFrame --> R data.frame, columns get assigned two classes: AsIs, some data type

ggplot2 sees AsIs and refuses to deal with the data type properly. It would be nice to have the AsIs automatically stripped like here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25175530/can-rpy2-code-be-run-in-parallel

I put the hack in my code like this:

from rpy2.robjects import r as R
hack_pandas = R("""
    function(df) {
        data.frame(lapply(df, function(X) {
            if ("AsIs" %in% class(X))
                class(X) <- class(X)[-match("AsIs", class(X))]
            X
        }))
    }
""")

df = hack_pandas(com.convert_to_r_dataframe(data))

It would be nice to have this done on-the-fly, perhaps optionally (strip_asis=True?).

[jreback]

redirect to rpy2 for these types of conversions, see #9602