R Observatory: Metrics for DataLoader version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DataLoader

1.3Package record

Import Multiple File Types

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

79.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Srivenkatesh GandhiCRAN page ↗

Functions to import multiple files of multiple data file types ('.xlsx', '.xls', '.csv', '.txt') from a given directory into R data frames.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("DataLoader", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-dataloader

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-DataLoader

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-DataLoader

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Srivenkatesh Gandhi <srivenkateshg@sase.ssn.edu.in>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Srivenkatesh",
                      family = "Gandhi",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "srivenkateshg@sase.ssn.edu.in"),
               person(given = c("Kreshnaa", "Raam", "S"),
                      family = "Bethusamy",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "kreshnaaraamsb@sase.ssn.edu.in"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-04-06
ERROR9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,425 · ~7/day · ~224/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27530 days

76890 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DataLoader adds 25 packages (11 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: xlsxjars 9.8 MB, readxl 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (5)

readxl plyrtoolsxlsx rChoiceDialogs

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Srivenkatesh Gandhi

Kreshnaa Raam S Bethusamy

Maintainer since 1.2 (2015)

Releases (2)

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1.3Latest
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2015-11-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
importCsv2
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2015-10-15
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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-15
Total releases: 2 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 117 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DataLoader")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DataLoader version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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