R Observatory: Metrics for fastverse version 0.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fastverse

0.3.4Package record

A Suite of High-Performance Packages for Statistics and Data Manipulation

0packages dependsuggested by 3

35.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian KrantzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Easy installation, loading and management, of high-performance packages for statistical computing and data manipulation in R. The core 'fastverse' consists of 4 packages: 'data.table', 'collapse', 'kit' and 'magrittr', that jointly only depend on 'Rcpp'. The 'fastverse' can be freely and permanently extended with additional packages, both globally or for individual projects. Separate package verses can also be created. Fast packages for many common tasks such as time series, dates and times, strings, spatial data, statistics, data serialization, larger-than-memory processing, and compilation of R code are listed in the README file: https://github.com/fastverse/fastverse#suggested-extensions.

Changes in 0.3.4

Fixed "width" issue during print if getOption("width") is too narrow. Thanks @realzhang (#115).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fastverse", 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("fastverse/fastverse")

Development version from fastverse/fastverse. 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-fastverse

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-fastverse

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-fastverse

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘collapse’ ‘data.table’ ‘kit’ ‘magrittr’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.4

READMEYes · 4,223 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 40%2 run in a plain check · 2 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 45%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the *fastverse* HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

35.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,438 · ~98/day · ~3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

6.7K90 days

35.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on136 r2u2 autocran3.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

fastverse/fastverse ↗Organization: fastverse

346Stars

25Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

377Commits

10Commit identities

high-performancestatistical-computingdata-manipulationdata-transformationlow-dependencyrstatsrc

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 377 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · +1.2% stars, 30d · Discussions: 8 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-23 · 2822026-10-21 · 346

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/fastverse/fastverse on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-27
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 2 by its own account

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fastverse adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 9.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, collapse 1.4 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

data.table collapse kit magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

collapse flownet mhpfilter

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Sebastian Krantz

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.8 (2021)

Hadley Wickham

Contributor

Releases (10)

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-12
Total releases: 10 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 63 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("fastverse")

Format

Krantz, S., & Wickham, H. (2024). fastverse: A Suite of High-Performance Packages for Statistics and Data Manipulation (Version 0.3.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fastverse

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fastverse version 0.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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