diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-yaml/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-yaml/Makefile
index d813fd7a050a..37f85547dd60 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-yaml/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-yaml/Makefile
@@ -1,17 +1,19 @@
 PORTNAME=	yaml
-DISTVERSION=	2.3.11
+DISTVERSION=	2.3.12
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	uzsolt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Methods to convert R data to YAML and back
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/package=yaml
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-RUnit>0:devel/R-cran-RUnit
+TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
+		R-cran-rmarkdown>0:textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown \
+		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat
 
 USES=		compiler:c++23-lang cran:auto-plist,compiles
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-yaml/distinfo b/textproc/R-cran-yaml/distinfo
index 4ea242829070..6b1e5ec50e53 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-yaml/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-yaml/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1764667264
-SHA256 (yaml_2.3.11.tar.gz) = b9c4fa70b9e2ba2257d59b7d4ba5d80106ed63f66d6d2a4da26b754160bac22c
-SIZE (yaml_2.3.11.tar.gz) = 94851
+TIMESTAMP = 1765552969
+SHA256 (yaml_2.3.12.tar.gz) = 80ccf3dde851133ef3e333b818a817c296c6ccdacfc4709cd466995289cd556c
+SIZE (yaml_2.3.12.tar.gz) = 108975