Read Excel Files R package readxl version 1.5.0 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. Software Depends: R (>= 4.1) Imports: cellranger, tibble (>= 2.0.1), utils LinkingTo: cpp11 (>= 0.5.5), progress Suggests: covr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.1.6), withr Jennifer Bryan <jenny@posit.co> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Hadley Wickham [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X>), Jennifer Bryan [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6983-2759>), Posit, PBC [cph, fnd] (Copyright holder of all R code and all C/C++ code without explicit copyright attribution), Marcin Kalicinski [ctb, cph] (Author of included RapidXML code), Komarov Valery [ctb, cph] (Author of included libxls code), Christophe Leitienne [ctb, cph] (Author of included libxls code), Bob Colbert [ctb, cph] (Author of included libxls code), David Hoerl [ctb, cph] (Author of included libxls code), Evan Miller [ctb, cph] (Author of included libxls code) MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readxl/LICENSE) 2026-05-16 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readxl doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.readxl