This package is based on the package readxl. It provides functions that read all Excel sheets as pure text and then try to split each sheet into a set of line ranges that are assumed to represent single tables.
#install.packages("remotes", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")
remotes::install_github("KWB-R/kwb.readxl")
Release: https://kwb-r.github.io/kwb.readxl
Development: https://kwb-r.github.io/kwb.readxl/dev