diff --git a/devel/R-cran-collapse/Makefile b/devel/R-cran-collapse/Makefile
index c42003ac539c..7bcdcdaaf533 100644
--- a/devel/R-cran-collapse/Makefile
+++ b/devel/R-cran-collapse/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	collapse
-DISTVERSION=	2.0.17
+DISTVERSION=	2.0.18
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Advanced and Fast Data Transformation
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/collapse/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-Rcpp>=1.0.1:devel/R-cran-Rcpp
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-data.table>0:devel/R-cran-data.table \
 		R-cran-dplyr>0:math/R-cran-dplyr \
 		R-cran-kit>0:devel/R-cran-kit \
 		R-cran-microbenchmark>0:devel/R-cran-microbenchmark \
 		R-cran-plm>0:finance/R-cran-plm \
 		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat
-# Tests: 'fixest' required (?) not ported yet
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist,compiles
 
+pre-test:
+# R-cran-fixest package does not exist yet
+	@${LOCALBASE}/bin/Rscript -e 'install.packages("fixest", \
+		repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")'
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/R-cran-collapse/distinfo b/devel/R-cran-collapse/distinfo
index 57301874bc72..4c74bc89f20d 100644
--- a/devel/R-cran-collapse/distinfo
+++ b/devel/R-cran-collapse/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1730711726
-SHA256 (collapse_2.0.17.tar.gz) = 8088bd24f5cce15a118426a63f8f6eee5b6ae4b01f13a2ced204440f60c1fbdd
-SIZE (collapse_2.0.17.tar.gz) = 1518702
+TIMESTAMP = 1732793499
+SHA256 (collapse_2.0.18.tar.gz) = b91240cc2e422e2356d73411613e5dd48ac756c5282d591cd0ad017ecf2c9757
+SIZE (collapse_2.0.18.tar.gz) = 1518379