openxlsx2

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan Marvin GarbuszusFirst published 2022-09-3041 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simplifies the creation of 'xlsx' files by providing a high level interface to writing, styling and editing worksheets.

Install

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

install.packages("openxlsx2", 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("JanMarvin/openxlsx2")

Development version from JanMarvin/openxlsx2. 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-openxlsx2

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-openxlsx2

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-openxlsx2

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 11.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.53

87.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-04-18
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ERROR2026-04-14
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Documentation

READMEYes · 485 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

157.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,005 · ~431/day · ~13.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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13.2K30 days

44.6K90 days

157.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ janmarvin/openxlsx2

197Stars

25Forks

23Open issues

2Open PRs

43Releases

3,927Commits

51Contributors

rr-packagexlsx

3,927 commits · Last activity 2026-07-21 · +1.5% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-14 · 1542026-07-07 · 197

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/janmarvin/openxlsx2 on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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Governance and community (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

R6 RcppgrDevicesstringiutils

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (9)

encharter ggplot2 knitr mschart openssl rmarkdown rvg testthat zip

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

29direct

0indirect

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 54,536 (65%)Rd 13,481 (16%)C++ 9,108 (11%)C 5,087 (6%)Vignettes 2,096 (2%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S38R68

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 276 max
Test cases: 662 / 0.53 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

87%

Expression

87.1%

Tests / Examples

87.4% / – ex

Functions

657 162 exported

Complexity

4.8 avg / 276 max

Call network

657 nodes / 934 edges

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Lowest coverage

657 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
convertToExcelDate exp	1	0%
create_comment exp	1	0%
delete_data exp	1	0%
remove_comment exp	1	0%
wb_add_drawing exp	1	0%
wb_add_form_control exp	1	0%

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Jan Marvin Garbuszus

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Jan Marvin Garbuszus

Author, Maintainer

Jordan Mark Barbone

Author

Contributors (2)

Arseny Kapoulkine

Contributor, Copyright holder

Olivier Roy

Contributor · added in 1.9

Copyright holders (2)

Arseny Kapoulkine

Contributor, Copyright holder

openxlsx authors

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Oliver Roy

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.8

Package Timeline

41 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-30
Total releases: 41 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet