diff --git a/textproc/Makefile b/textproc/Makefile
index 503d1fa731bf..2ca8bf8398fe 100644
--- a/textproc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     SUBDIR += 2bsd-diff
     SUBDIR += R-cran-R2HTML
     SUBDIR += R-cran-XML
+    SUBDIR += R-cran-pystr
     SUBDIR += R-cran-stringi
     SUBDIR += R-cran-stringr
     SUBDIR += R-cran-xtable
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-pystr/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-pystr/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ae9f0e1003b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-pystr/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Created by: Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@FreeBSD.org>
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+PORTNAME=	pystr
+DISTVERSION=	1.0.0
+CATEGORIES=	textproc
+DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
+
+MAINTAINER=	skreuzer@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	String operations the Python way
+
+USES=	cran:auto-plist
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-pystr/distinfo b/textproc/R-cran-pystr/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f8471841f8a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-pystr/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SHA256 (pystr_1.0.0.tar.gz) = 733eb4d92ab6dc1a614045ec527504b47ff7830411a39e18a682221a77bec0d7
+SIZE (pystr_1.0.0.tar.gz) = 21719
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-pystr/pkg-descr b/textproc/R-cran-pystr/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..486043a9cafe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-pystr/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+String operations the Python way - a package for those of us who miss Python's
+string methods while we're working in R.
+
+WWW: http://cran.r-project.org/web/pystr/