knitxl

0.1.0

Generates a Spreadsheet Report from an 'rmarkdown' File

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

67.8%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Denis DreanoFirst published 2023-04-181 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Convert an R Markdown documents into an '.xlsx' spreadsheet reports with the knitxl() function, which works similarly to knit() from the 'knitr' package. The generated report can be opened in 'Excel' or similar software for further analysis and presentation.

Install

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

install.packages("knitxl", 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("dreanod/knitxl")

Development version from dreanod/knitxl. 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-knitxl

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-knitxl

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-knitxl

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

67.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 148 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,207 · ~7/day · ~222/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dreanod/knitxl

8Stars

0Forks

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0Open PRs

0Releases

69Commits

2Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 69 commits · Last activity 2024-08-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-06-17 · 82026-07-07 · 8

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dreanod/knitxl on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

knitr

Imports (11)

commonmark glue magrittr openxlsx purrr R6 readbitmap readr stringr xml2 yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat waldo

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Denis Dreano

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Denis Dreano

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Denis Dreano

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2023-04-18
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 348 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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