R Observatory: Metrics for readxlsb version 0.1.61

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-01-10. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected in time

Details below reflect version 0.1.61, its last release before removal.

readxlsb

0.1.61

Read 'Excel' Binary (.xlsb) Workbooks

1packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael Allen6 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Import data from 'Excel' binary (.xlsb) workbooks into R.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/readxlsb/readxlsb_0.1.61.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "readxlsb_0.1.61.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.61) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("velofrog/readxlsb")

Development version from velofrog/readxlsb. 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-readxlsb

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

# 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-readxlsb

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 9 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

Releases R versions

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Also on344 r2u19 autocran

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

Rcpp xml2 cellrangerutils

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

–indirect (not tracked)

easyr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Allen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Michael Allen

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-01-10
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.61
2023-03-04 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2023-02-16 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2023-02-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.4
2020-09-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.3
2020-04-14 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2019-09-12
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

Total releases: 6
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("readxlsb")

Format

Allen, M. (n.d.). readxlsb: Read 'Excel' Binary (.xlsb) Workbooks (Version 0.1.61) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 22, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readxlsb

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 readxlsb version 0.1.61 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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