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cran: Use pyreadr instead of rpy2 to read a RDS file from Python

Antoine Lambert requested to merge anlambert/swh-lister:cran-lister-improvements-pyreadr into master

The CRAN lister improvements introduced in 91e4e33d originally used pyreadr to read a RDS file from Python instead of rpy2.

As swh-lister was still packaged for debian at the time, the choice of using rpy2 instead was made as a debian package is available for it while it is not for pyreadr.

Now debian packaging was dropped for swh-lister we can reinstate the pyreadr based implementation which has the advantages of being faster and not depending on the R language runtime.

Related to swh/meta#1709 (closed).

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