Package: readxl 1.4.5.9000

Jennifer Bryan

readxl: Read Excel Files

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.

Authors:Hadley Wickham [aut], Jennifer Bryan [aut, cre], Posit, PBC [cph, fnd], Marcin Kalicinski [ctb, cph], Komarov Valery [ctb, cph], Christophe Leitienne [ctb, cph], Bob Colbert [ctb, cph], David Hoerl [ctb, cph], Evan Miller [ctb, cph]

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NEWS

# Install 'readxl' in R:

install.packages('readxl', repos = c('https://tidyverse.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/tidyverse/readxl/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://readxl.tidyverse.org

Uses libs:

c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

On CRAN:

excel spreadsheet xls xlsx cpp

20.81 score 749 stars 880 packages 204k scripts 823k downloads 139 mentions 13 exports 18 dependencies

Last updated from:e090951f2b. Checks:13 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Total time
linux-devel-arm64	OK	133
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	137
source / vignettes	OK	184
linux-release-arm64	OK	152
linux-release-x86_64	OK	126
macos-devel-arm64	OK	105
macos-devel-x86_64	OK	154
macos-release-arm64	OK	114
macos-release-x86_64	OK	236
windows-devel	OK	116
windows-release	OK	173
windows-oldrel	OK	117
wasm-release	OK	121

Exports:anchored cell_cols cell_limits cell_rows excel_format excel_sheets format_from_ext format_from_signature read_excel read_xls read_xlsx readxl_example readxl_progress

Dependencies:cellranger cli cpp11 crayon glue hms lifecycle magrittr pillar pkgconfig prettyunits progress R6 rematch rlang tibble utf8 vctrs

Cell and Column Types

Rendered fromcell-and-column-types.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jan 27 2026.

Last update: 2023-03-10
Started: 2017-04-14

Sheet Geometry

Rendered fromsheet-geometry.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jan 27 2026.

Last update: 2023-03-10
Started: 2017-04-14

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Specify cells for reading	anchored cell-specification cell_cols cell_limits cell_rows
Determine file format	excel_format format_from_ext format_from_signature
List all sheets in an excel spreadsheet	excel_sheets
Read xls and xlsx files	read_excel read_xls read_xlsx
Get path to readxl example	readxl_example
Determine whether to show progress spinner	readxl_progress