diff --git a/www/R-cran-httr/Makefile b/www/R-cran-httr/Makefile
index 47d2ce66d6a4..aea0cf384831 100644
--- a/www/R-cran-httr/Makefile
+++ b/www/R-cran-httr/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	httr
-PORTVERSION=	1.3.1
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	1.4.0
 CATEGORIES=	www
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION}
 
@@ -12,9 +11,9 @@ COMMENT=	Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
-CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-jsonlite>0:converters/R-cran-jsonlite \
+CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-curl>=0.9.1:ftp/R-cran-curl \
+		R-cran-jsonlite>0:converters/R-cran-jsonlite \
 		R-cran-mime>0:misc/R-cran-mime \
-		R-cran-curl>=0.9.1:ftp/R-cran-curl \
 		R-cran-openssl>=0.8:security/R-cran-openssl \
 		R-cran-R6>0:devel/R-cran-R6
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
diff --git a/www/R-cran-httr/distinfo b/www/R-cran-httr/distinfo
index 9f3763e71cdf..33f6b9e987fd 100644
--- a/www/R-cran-httr/distinfo
+++ b/www/R-cran-httr/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1504586887
-SHA256 (httr_1.3.1.tar.gz) = 22134d7426b2eba37f0cc34b99285499b8bac9fe75a7bc3222fbad179bf8f258
-SIZE (httr_1.3.1.tar.gz) = 147593
+TIMESTAMP = 1563087923
+SHA256 (httr_1.4.0.tar.gz) = d633f1425da514f65f3b8c034ae0a8b6911995009840c6bb9657ceedb99ddb48
+SIZE (httr_1.4.0.tar.gz) = 156356