R Observatory: Metrics for writexl version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CRAN requires the check problems on this package to be fixed before 2026-08-21 or it will be archived.

writexl

2.0.0

Export Data Frames to Excel 'xlsx' Format

139packages depend

2.8Mdownloads / year

83.2%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bill DenneyFirst published 2017-08-3016 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Zero-dependency data frame to xlsx exporter based on 'libxlsxwriter' https://libxlsxwriter.github.io. Fast and no Java or Excel required.

Install

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

install.packages("writexl", 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/writexl")

Development version from ropensci/writexl. 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-writexl

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

# 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-writexl

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-writexl

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

Health

CRAN checks

2WARNING11OK

Failing flavors

WARNING r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
WARNING r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.08

83.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

WARNING2026-07-16
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #203 · ~7.6K/day · ~232.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

255.3K30 days

827.9K90 days

2.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6.7K r2u18 autocran31.3K conda_forge63 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/writexl

214Stars

19Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

198Commits

8Contributors

libxlsxwriterrxlsxexcelrstatsr-package

198 commits · Last activity 2026-08-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-31 · 2102026-07-07 · 214

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/writexl on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

grDevicesgraphicsspelling readxl nycflights13 testthat xml2 bit64 knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

139direct

71indirect

and 91 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Bill Denney

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.0

Authors (2)

Bill Denney

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.0

Jeroen Ooms

Author

Copyright holders (1)

John McNamara

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

2.0.0Latest
2026-08-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.4
2025-04-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.5.3
2025-04-06 · diff ↗
1.5.2
2025-03-17 · diff ↗
1.5.1
2024-10-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.5.0
2024-02-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.2
2023-01-06 · diff ↗
1.4.1
2022-10-18 · 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
1.4.0
2021-04-21 · diff ↗
1.3.1
2020-08-26 · diff ↗

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1.3
2020-05-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.2
2019-11-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1
2018-12-02 · diff ↗
1.0
2018-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2
2017-09-06 · diff ↗
0.1
2017-08-30
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-30
Total releases: 16 / 9 yrs
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 623 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("writexl")

Format

Denney, B., John McNamara, & Ooms, J. (2026). writexl: Export Data Frames to Excel 'xlsx' Format (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.writexl

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for writexl version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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