readxl
1.5.0Read Excel Files
558packages depend
13.1Mdownloads / year
68.1%test coverage
13/13checks pass
Overview
About
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
- OK2026-05-1713 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
- ERROR2026-04-0510 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
- NOTE2026-03-2813 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
- OK2026-03-1014 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
13.1M
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #71 · ~36K/day · ~1.1M/mo
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722.8K30 days
2.7M90 days
13.1M1 year
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Repository
Repository
752Stars
195Forks
50Open issues
1Open PRs
14Releases
731Commits
44Contributors
rexcelxlsxxlsspreadsheet
731 commits · Last activity 2026-05-17 · -0.1% stars, 30d
Stars over time
2025-07-21 · 7322026-07-08 · 752
Forks over time
2025-02-10 · 1872026-07-07 · 195
Releases over time
2025-03-07 · 132026-07-07 · 14
Issues over time
2025-05-30 · 492026-07-07 · 50
PRs over time
2025-03-09 · 12026-07-07 · 1
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
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Coverage (2)
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Governance and community (3)
Issue templatesCODEOWNERSSupport guide
Dependencies
Declared dependencies
9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 4.1
Imports (3)
cellrangertibbleutils
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
558direct
312indirect
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and 510 more packages.
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People & History
People (9)
Maintainer (1)
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Authors (2)
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Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0
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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
- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
- 1.4.52025-03-07 · diff ↗
- 1.4.42025-02-27 · diff ↗
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
- 1.4.32023-07-07 · diff ↗
- RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- 1.4.22023-02-09 · diff ↗
- 1.4.12022-08-17 · diff ↗
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- 1.4.02022-03-28 · diff ↗
- RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- RR 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
- RR 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
- 1.3.12019-03-13 · diff ↗
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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