db_engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine("mysql+pymysql://user:pass@host/database")
cnx = db_engine.connect()
table = pd.read_sql('select * from my_table',cnx)
cnx.close()

cnx = mysql.connector.connect(**db_details)
cursor = cnx.cursor()
cursor.execute('select * from my_table')
table = pd.DataFrame(data=list(cursor),columns = cursor.column_names)
cnx.close()

require(DBI)
cnx <- dbConnect(dbDriver("MySQL"),dbname="database",username="user",password="pass",host="host")
table <- dbGetQuery(cnx,"select * from my_table")