diff --git a/math/R-cran-lava/Makefile b/math/R-cran-lava/Makefile
index 24c6d6349184..5ddbf02422f4 100644
--- a/math/R-cran-lava/Makefile
+++ b/math/R-cran-lava/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	lava
-DISTVERSION=	1.8.2
+DISTVERSION=	1.9.0
 CATEGORIES=	math
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Latent Variable Models
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/package=lava
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-cli>0:devel/R-cran-cli \
 		R-cran-future.apply>0:devel/R-cran-future.apply \
 		R-cran-numDeriv>0:math/R-cran-numDeriv \
 		R-cran-progressr>0:devel/R-cran-progressr \
 		R-cran-SQUAREM>0:math/R-cran-SQUAREM
 TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-geepack>0:math/R-cran-geepack \
 		R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
+		R-cran-Rcpp>0:devel/R-cran-Rcpp \
+		R-cran-RcppArmadillo>0:math/R-cran-RcppArmadillo \
 		R-cran-rmarkdown>0:textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown \
 		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist
 
+pre-test:
+# R-cran-mets package does not exist yet
+	@${LOCALBASE}/bin/Rscript -e 'install.packages("mets", \
+		repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")'
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/math/R-cran-lava/distinfo b/math/R-cran-lava/distinfo
index 84f947069ef3..290a8fca2f8a 100644
--- a/math/R-cran-lava/distinfo
+++ b/math/R-cran-lava/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1761921329
-SHA256 (lava_1.8.2.tar.gz) = 1476503d6d18e11541b3c176c1789b95e819c2f85ad78b62024af0cdf921d54e
-SIZE (lava_1.8.2.tar.gz) = 1199884
+TIMESTAMP = 1775585078
+SHA256 (lava_1.9.0.tar.gz) = 26d18681561afde5c1674d0d66c219f14b96f0fb1df23d3af9d5bdff0ec57835
+SIZE (lava_1.9.0.tar.gz) = 1109309