R Observatory: Metrics for XLConnect version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

XLConnect

1.3.0Package record

Excel Connector for R

0packages dependsuggested by 3

65.7Kdownloads / year

55.8%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin StuderCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides comprehensive functionality to read, write and format Excel data.

Changes in 1.3.0

Migrate test suite from RUnit to testthat #240
Upgrade POI to 5.5.1

From NEWS in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("XLConnect", 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("miraisolutions/xlconnect")

Development version from miraisolutions/xlconnect. 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-xlconnect

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘dollar-methods.Rd’ ‘extraction-methods.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-06
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMEYes · 218 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 110 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%101 never run
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 59%
Help pages citing references: 12%

Also includes 14 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (2)

The XLConnect Package PDF
XLConnect for the Impatient PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

65.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,771 · ~180/day · ~5.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.1K30 days

11.5K90 days

65.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on560 r2u3.9K conda_forge152 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

miraisolutions/xlconnect ↗Organization: miraisolutions

131Stars

32Forks

35Open issues

2Open PRs

20Releases

698Commits

14Commit identities

xlconnectexcelrr-languagecross-platform

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 698 commits · Last activity 2026-09-08 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.1.9999, ahead of CRAN 1.3.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 100
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-04-08 · 1302026-07-07 · 131

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/miraisolutions/xlconnect on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDev Container

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrAir

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Julesfirst seen 2025-06-19
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 21 by its own account · at least 3 crediting it in the message
Aiderfirst seen 2025-08-05
Named in .gitignore: .aider*
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-08-11
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 51 commit · Aug 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing XLConnect adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 624 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rJava 624 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (2)

methodsrJava

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

latticeggplot2 zoo testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

JGR D4TAlink.light psyverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Martin Studer

Maintainer · added in 0.2-9

Mirai Solutions GmbH

Author · added in 0.2-9

Brett Woolridge

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.0.4

SparseBitSet Java library

Graph Builder

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2-12

Curvesapi Java library

The Apache Software Foundation

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2-9

Apache POI

Maintainer since 0.2-0 (2012), previously Mirai Solutions GmbH (0.1-3 to 0.1-9)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Metastuff, Ltd.

no longer listed · 0.2-9

Stephen Colebourne

no longer listed · 0.2-9 to 0.2-12

Releases (38)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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1.2.1
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added 1 export
configurePOI
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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1.1.0
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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0.2-10
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2015-01-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
checkNoException, rsrc, runUnitTests
0.2-9
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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added 3 exports
checkNoException, normalizeDataframe, rsrc
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
0.1-9
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2012-03-09 · diff ↗
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2012-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
xlcEdit
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
0.1-7
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2011-10-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
extractSheetName, xlcDump, xlcRestore
0.1-5
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2011-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
aref, aref2idx, idx2aref
0.1-4
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2011-05-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
col2idx, cref2idx, idx2col, idx2cref
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
0.1-3
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2011-02-27
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2011-02-27
Total releases: 38 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: See file COPYRIGHTS
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 5.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("XLConnect")

Format

Studer, M., Brett Woolridge, Graph Builder, Mirai Solutions GmbH, & The Apache Software Foundation. (2026). XLConnect: Excel Connector for R (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.XLConnect

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 XLConnect version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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