BTM vs readxl

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BTM		readxl
	Project
1	Mentions	4
88	Stars	719
-	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	4.4
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C++	Language	C++
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

BTM

Posts with mentions or reviews of BTM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-05.

best text mining packages?
2 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 5 Jul 2021

For brief description you can refer to the BTM repo. If you want to go into detail just read the paper on BTM which is also linked there. Otherwise i strongly suggest you to keep things tidy/stick with tidytext.

readxl

Posts with mentions or reviews of readxl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-11.

Converting hexadecimal to ASCII?
2 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 11 Nov 2022

> https://github.com/tidyverse/readxl/blob/main/tests/testthat/sheets/types.xlsx
Error: std::bad_alloc when import CSV file
1 project | /r/RStudio | 27 Oct 2022
error patch no exist how to resolve
1 project | /r/rprogramming | 18 Dec 2021

read_excel() can't handle URLs, there's been an open issue about this since 2017. You'll either have to download the file using a browser and then point read_excel() at the file path, or use something like curl and a temp file.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BTM and readxl you can also consider the following projects:

quanteda - An R package for the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

wasmr - Execute WebAssembly from R using wasmer

vroom - Vehicle Routing Open-source Optimization Machine

xlnt - :bar_chart: Cross-platform user-friendly xlsx library for C++11+

rstan - RStan, the R interface to Stan

js-xlsx - :green_book: SheetJS Community Edition -- Spreadsheet Data Toolkit [Moved to: https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs]

LightGBM - A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.

SheetJS js-xlsx - 📗 SheetJS Spreadsheet Data Toolkit -- New home https://git.sheetjs.com/SheetJS/sheetjs

Rcpp - Seamless R and C++ Integration

ONLYOFFICE - ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.

PhpSpreadsheet - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files