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Today, many R packages are pre-installed on the standard clusters on Databricks. Libraries like "tidyverse", "ggplot2", etc are there. Also the great library "readxl" to load Excel files. But unfortunately, its counterpart "writexl" is not pre-instal...

I have uploaded small Excel files on my DBFS. I then use function read_xlsx() from the "readxl" package in R to import the file into the R memory. I use a standard cluster (12.1, non ML). The function works but it takes ages. E.g. a simple Excel tabl...