R Observatory: Metrics for readODS version 2.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

readODS

2.3.6Package record

Read and Write ODS Files

16packages dependsuggested by 8

146Kdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chung-hong ChanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Read ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) into R as data frame. Also support writing data frame into ODS file.

Changes in 2.3.6

Fix an important bug introduced in 2.3.4: appending and updating content with XML content is functional again (see #233)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("readODS", 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("ropensci/readODS")

Development version from ropensci/readODS. 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-readods

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-readODS

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-readODS

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: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-09

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.3.6

READMEYes · 400 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.3.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

An Overview of readODS HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

146K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,166 · ~400/day · ~12.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9.9K30 days

29.4K90 days

146K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u106 autocran7.4K conda_forge132 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/readods ↗Organization: ropensci

60Stars

24Forks

9Open issues

1Open PRs

15Releases

290Commits

19Commit identities

290 commits · Last activity 2026-09-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 562026-07-07 · 60

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/ropensci/readods on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (2)

EditorConfigVS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing readODS adds 18 packages (11 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (8)

cellranger minty stringi tibble vctrs (>= 0.4.2)ziptoolswithr

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (8)

spelling testthatdatasetscovr knitr rmarkdown readr desc

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

8indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 15

Suggested by 8

Show all 24 packagesHide all 24 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

readtext emdi LearningStats shinyGovstyle kstIO RKaggle aweSOM CDSS DCC saeTrafo REDCapCAST hmrc esaps CbKST tab2xml PubMatrixR

Suggests, most downloaded first

rio lessR stats19 dextergui AdhereRViz memapp SARP.moodle InsectLabelR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (18)

Chung-hong Chan

Author, Maintainer since 1.6.2 (2016) · added in 1.6.2

Peter Brohan

Author · added in 2.0.0

Thomas J. Leeper

Author · added in 1.6.4

Gerrit-Jan Schutten

Author

Detlef Steuer

Author · added in 1.8.0

John Foster

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Duncan Garmonsway

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Jim Hester

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Marcin Kalicinski

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 2.0.0

Author of included RapidXML code

Arthur Katossky

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Matt Kerlogue

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Michal Lauer

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Mehrad Mahmoudian

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

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Stas Malavin

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Sergio Oller

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Till Straube

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda

Contributor · added in 2.3.4

Stephen Watts

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Previously maintained by Gerrit-Jan Schutten (1.2 to 1.4).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

other contributors

no longer listed · 1.6.7 to 1.7.0

Releases (17)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

2.3.6Latest
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2026-09-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.3.5
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2026-04-13 · diff ↗
2.3.4
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2026-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
readODS_progress
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.3.2
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2025-01-13 · diff ↗
2.3.1
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2024-11-05 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2024-05-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.2.0
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2024-02-01 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2023-09-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
write_fods
2.0.0
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2023-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
getNrOfSheetsInODS, get_num_sheets_in_ods, read.ods

added 2 exports
list_fods_sheets, read_fods
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.8.0
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2023-01-23 · diff ↗
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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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1.7.0
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2020-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_num_sheet_in_ods

added 2 exports
get_num_sheets_in_ods, list_ods_sheets
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.6.7
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2018-11-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.6.4
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2016-11-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
write_ods
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.6.2
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2016-03-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
get_num_sheet_in_ods, ods_sheets, read_ods
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.4
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2014-07-07 · diff ↗
1.3
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2014-07-03 · diff ↗
1.2
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2014-06-24
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-06-24
Total releases: 17 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 556 KB

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Reproducible Research

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("readODS")

Format

Chan, C., Brohan, P., Foster, J., Garmonsway, D., Hester, J., Kalicinski, M., Katossky, A., Kerlogue, M., Lauer, M., Leeper, T. J., Mahmoudian, M., Malavin, S., Oller, S., Schutten, G., Steuer, D., Straube, T., Vargas Sepulveda, M., & Watts, S. (2026). readODS: Read and Write ODS Files (Version 2.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.readODS

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for readODS version 2.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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