diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-rex/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-rex/Makefile
index fb8746e57bca..37be93d58fc2 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-rex/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-rex/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,28 @@
 PORTNAME=	rex
-DISTVERSION=	1.2.1
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.2.2
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	uzsolt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Friendly Regular Expressions
-WWW=		https://github.com/kevinushey/rex
+WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/package=rex
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr
-RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-lazyeval>0:math/R-cran-lazyeval
-TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-Hmisc>0:devel/R-cran-Hmisc \
-		R-cran-covr>0:devel/R-cran-covr \
-		R-cran-magrittr>0:devel/R-cran-magrittr \
-		R-cran-roxygen2>0:devel/R-cran-roxygen2 \
-		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat \
-		R-cran-ggplot2>0:graphics/R-cran-ggplot2 \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-withr>0:devel/R-cran-withr
+TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-covr>0:devel/R-cran-covr \
 		R-cran-dplyr>0:math/R-cran-dplyr \
+		R-cran-ggplot2>0:graphics/R-cran-ggplot2 \
+		R-cran-Hmisc>0:devel/R-cran-Hmisc \
 		R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
+		R-cran-magrittr>0:devel/R-cran-magrittr \
 		R-cran-rmarkdown>0:textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown \
+		R-cran-roxygen2>0:devel/R-cran-roxygen2 \
+		R-cran-rvest>0:www/R-cran-rvest \
 		R-cran-stringr>0:textproc/R-cran-stringr \
-		R-cran-rvest>0:www/R-cran-rvest
+		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-rex/distinfo b/textproc/R-cran-rex/distinfo
index 8ac37cf08c70..1079601c0233 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-rex/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-rex/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1638243081
-SHA256 (rex_1.2.1.tar.gz) = af42e649c06e4bbdba94d5a1870a7e8347903571c90cd5e5ca40f52307a3bfd6
-SIZE (rex_1.2.1.tar.gz) = 93583
+TIMESTAMP = 1774880313
+SHA256 (rex_1.2.2.tar.gz) = 5c6a6f9bc45507038ae528e71a7f6cd69a77c24c2fed86383a34fd5c86c2ee48
+SIZE (rex_1.2.2.tar.gz) = 91288
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-rex/pkg-descr b/textproc/R-cran-rex/pkg-descr
index 20bccce95ce0..e591fa72b2bd 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-rex/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-rex/pkg-descr
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
 A friendly interface for the construction of regular expressions.
+
+Regular expressions are very powerful feature, however they are often difficult
+to interpret. Rex allows you to build complex regular expressions from human
+readable expressions.