R Observatory: Metrics for XLConnect version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

XLConnect

1.3.0

Excel Connector for R

3packages depend

82.7Kdownloads / year

55.8%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin StuderFirst published 2011-02-2738 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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

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.

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 5.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.87

55.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-06
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-04
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 218 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 59%
References docs: 12%

Downloads

82.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,650 · ~227/day · ~6.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4K30 days

14.4K90 days

82.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on823 r2u4K conda_forge74 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ miraisolutions/xlconnect

131Stars

32Forks

35Open issues

1Open PRs

20Releases

697Commits

14Contributors

xlconnectexcelrr-languagecross-platform

License GPL-3.0 · 697 commits · Last activity 2026-08-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-08 · 1302026-07-07 · 131

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/miraisolutions/xlconnect on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDev Container

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Show all practices

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrAir

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: jules on 2025-06-19

jules

Most recent: jules on 2025-06-19

Evidence

agents-md: on 2025-06-17 · evidence D
jules: on 2025-06-19 · evidence A, B, PR · sole bot-author seen

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

3direct

0indirect

D4TAlink.light JGR psyverse

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Martin Studer

Maintainer · added in 0.2-9

Authors (1)

Mirai Solutions GmbH

Author · added in 0.2-9

Contributors (3)

Brett Woolridge

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.0.4

Graph Builder

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2-12

The Apache Software Foundation

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2-9

Copyright holders (3)

Brett Woolridge

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.0.4

Graph Builder

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2-12

The Apache Software Foundation

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2-9

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

Package Timeline

38 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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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
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 5.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for XLConnect version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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