DataLoader

1.3

Import Multiple File Types

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2.5Kdownloads / year

79.3%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Srivenkatesh GandhiFirst published 2015-10-152 releasesCRAN page ↗

Functions to import multiple files of multiple data file types ('.xlsx', '.xls', '.csv', '.txt') from a given directory into R data frames.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("DataLoader", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-dataloader

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

NOTE2026-04-06
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ERROR2026-04-04
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

readxl plyrtoolsxlsx rChoiceDialogs

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

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People & History

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Listed in earlier versions (2)

Kreshnaa Raam S Bethusamy

no longer listed · 1.2 to 1.3

Srivenkatesh Gandhi

no longer listed · 1.2 to 1.3

Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.3Latest
2015-11-01 · current release · diff ↗
1.2
2015-10-15
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-15
Total releases: 2 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 117 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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