Package: readxl 1.5.0.9000

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

20.84 score 753 stars 932 packages 147k scripts 928k downloads 139 mentions 13 exports 18 dependencies

Last updated from:47f8aeac0a. Checks:13 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-arm64	OK	165
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	193
source / vignettes	OK	301
linux-release-arm64	OK	155
linux-release-x86_64	OK	189
macos-release-arm64	OK	111
macos-release-x86_64	OK	206
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	99
macos-oldrel-x86_64	OK	159
windows-devel	OK	108
windows-release	OK	177
windows-oldrel	OK	108
wasm-release	OK	140

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 Jun 24 2026.

Last update: 2026-05-16
Started: 2017-04-14

Sheet Geometry

Rendered fromsheet-geometry.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jun 24 2026.

Last update: 2026-05-05
Started: 2017-04-14

Citation

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