R Observatory: Metrics for WriteXLS version 6.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

WriteXLS

6.8.0Package record

Cross-Platform Perl Based R Function to Create Excel 2003 (XLS) and Excel 2007 (XLSX) Files

10packages dependsuggested by 4

146.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marc SchwartzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Cross-platform Perl based R function to create Excel 2003 (XLS) and Excel 2007 (XLSX) files from one or more data frames. Each data frame will be written to a separate named worksheet in the Excel spreadsheet. The worksheet name will be the name of the data frame it contains or can be specified by the user.

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("marcschwartz/WriteXLS")

Development version from marcschwartz/WriteXLS. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-writexls

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-WriteXLS

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-WriteXLS

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 6.8.0

READMEYes · 186 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

146.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,098 · ~402/day · ~12.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11.3K30 days

33.2K90 days

146.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.7K r2u9 autocran10.8K conda_forge27.4K bioconda130 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

marcschwartz/writexls ↗Account: marcschwartz

19Stars

8Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

68Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 68 commits · Last activity 2025-05-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2021-12-02 · 192026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/marcschwartz/writexls on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing WriteXLS adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

4indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 9

Suggested by 4

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

enrichR htsr BEACH visvow massiveGST SEERaBomb CausCor packHV miniMeta survexp.fr

Suggests, most downloaded first

sos D4TAlink.light ACRER diffwrap

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Marc Schwartz

Author, Maintainer since 1.5.0 (2009)

Various authors for Perl modules listed in each .pm file.

Author · added in 3.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

file.

no longer listed · 6.8.0

Releases (37)

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-03-26
Total releases: 37 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Copyright: The copyright holders of the Perl files are listed in each .pm file under the Perl directory.
Download size: 778 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("WriteXLS")

Format

Schwartz, M., & file., V. a. f. P. m. l. i. e. p. (2025). WriteXLS: Cross-Platform Perl Based R Function to Create Excel 2003 (XLS) and Excel 2007 (XLSX) Files (Version 6.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.WriteXLS

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for WriteXLS version 6.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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