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: .