diff --git a/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile b/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile
index c946d1df0ddf..dbc19c34b57b 100644
--- a/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile
+++ b/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 PORTNAME=	knitr
-PORTVERSION=	1.39
+PORTVERSION=	1.40
 CATEGORIES=	print
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	tota@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/knitr/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 
 CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-evaluate>=0.15:devel/R-cran-evaluate \
 		R-cran-highr>0:textproc/R-cran-highr \
 		R-cran-stringr>=0.6:textproc/R-cran-stringr \
 		R-cran-yaml>=2.1.19:textproc/R-cran-yaml \
 		R-cran-xfun>=0.29:misc/R-cran-xfun
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 
 USES=	cran:auto-plist
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo b/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo
index 51118c25174f..1dd7ea05d598 100644
--- a/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo
+++ b/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1651199191
-SHA256 (knitr_1.39.tar.gz) = c91a65edebdca779af7f7480fa6636667497c9291ad55d6efd982db0bb91ac72
-SIZE (knitr_1.39.tar.gz) = 898418
+TIMESTAMP = 1662629480
+SHA256 (knitr_1.40.tar.gz) = 9b8f95ff367a0e52f024bda30315ec7cdd6a5b82371a1aaed95ab4eea78535bc
+SIZE (knitr_1.40.tar.gz) = 903328