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readxl

1.5.0

Read Excel Files

558packages depend
13.1Mdownloads / year
68.1%test coverage
13/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Jennifer BryanFirst published 2015-04-1414 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Import excel files into R. Supports '.xls' via the embedded 'libxls' C library https://github.com/libxls/libxls and '.xlsx' via the embedded 'RapidXML' C++ library https://rapidxml.sourceforge.net/. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux without external dependencies.

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Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 3.38
68.1%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
3
Dependencies · direct
Check history
  • OK2026-05-17
    13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • ERROR2026-04-05
    10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • NOTE2026-03-28
    13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-03-10
    14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 642 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
33%
References docs
0%

Downloads

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Repository

Repository
752Stars
195Forks
50Open issues
1Open PRs
14Releases
731Commits
44Contributors
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731 commits · Last activity 2026-05-17 · -0.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

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Docs source (1)
README.Rmd
Lint, format, editor (3)
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Coverage (2)
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Governance and community (3)
Issue templatesCODEOWNERSSupport guide
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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 4.1
Imports (3)
LinkingTo (2)
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)
Maintainer (1)
Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.0
Authors (2)
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Contributors (6)
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Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0
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Copyright holders (7)
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Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.2
Funders (1)
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Listed in earlier versions (1)
no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.4.1
Package Timeline

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

  • 1.5.0Latest
    2026-05-17 · current release · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • 1.4.5
    2025-03-07 · diff ↗
  • 1.4.4
    2025-02-27 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 1.4.3
    2023-07-07 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 1.4.2
    2023-02-09 · diff ↗
  • 1.4.1
    2022-08-17 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • 1.4.0
    2022-03-28 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • 1.3.1
    2019-03-13 · diff ↗
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  • 1.3.0
    2019-02-15 · diff ↗
  • 1.2.0
    2018-12-20 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • 1.1.0
    2018-04-20 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
  • 1.0.0
    2017-04-18 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • 0.1.1
    2016-03-28 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
  • 0.1.0
    2015-04-14
  • R
    R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published
2015-04-14
Total releases
14 / 11 yrs
License
MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R
≥ 4.1
Download size
1.6 MB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet
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