diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-vroom/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-vroom/Makefile
index ceaf0044733b..3f232bdca4ef 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-vroom/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-vroom/Makefile
@@ -1,57 +1,48 @@
 PORTNAME=	vroom
 DISTVERSION=	1.7.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	eduardo@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Read and Write Rectangular Text Data Quickly
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/package=vroom
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-bit64>0:devel/R-cran-bit64 \
 		R-cran-cli>=3.2.0:devel/R-cran-cli \
 		R-cran-cpp11>=0.2.0:devel/R-cran-cpp11 \
 		R-cran-crayon>0:devel/R-cran-crayon \
 		R-cran-glue>0:devel/R-cran-glue \
 		R-cran-hms>0:devel/R-cran-hms \
 		R-cran-lifecycle>=1.0.3:devel/R-cran-lifecycle \
 		R-cran-progress>=1.2.3:devel/R-cran-progress \
 		R-cran-rlang>=1.1.0:devel/R-cran-rlang \
 		R-cran-tibble>=2.0.0:devel/R-cran-tibble \
 		R-cran-tidyselect>0:devel/R-cran-tidyselect \
 		R-cran-tzdb>=0.1.1:devel/R-cran-tzdb \
 		R-cran-vctrs>=0.2.0:devel/R-cran-vctrs \
 		R-cran-withr>0:devel/R-cran-withr
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-dplyr>0:math/R-cran-dplyr \
 		R-cran-forcats>0:math/R-cran-forcats \
 		R-cran-ggplot2>0:graphics/R-cran-ggplot2 \
 		R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
 		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat \
 		R-cran-tidyr>0:devel/R-cran-tidyr
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang cran:auto-plist,compiles shebangfix
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	inst/bench/*.sh
 
 pre-test:
 
 # Test depends not ported yet
 .for pkg in patchwork bench
 	@${LOCALBASE}/bin/Rscript -e 'install.packages("${pkg}", \
 		repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")'
 .endfor
 
-# Tests are supposed to be run with unprivileged user. Running as root, tests fail.
-# See also: https://github.com/tidyverse/vroom/issues/611
-do-test:
-	@${MKDIR} ${WRKDIR}/tmp
-	@${CHMOD} 777 ${WRKDIR}/tmp
-	@cd ${WRKSRC} && \
-		${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} TMPDIR=${WRKDIR}/tmp _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false \
-		su -m nobody -c "${LOCALBASE}/bin/R CMD check --no-manual --no-build-vignettes ."
-
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-vroom/files/patch-fix-tests b/textproc/R-cran-vroom/files/patch-fix-tests
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7724f2f7952b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-vroom/files/patch-fix-tests
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From cd07f44dc51ddcb0795ccda84c814c8af75668df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jenny Bryan <jenny.f.bryan@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:10:37 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Improve this test
+
+Closes #611
+---
+ tests/testthat/test-connection.R | 12 ++++++++----
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git tests/testthat/test-connection.R tests/testthat/test-connection.R
+index 22b23b37..86aecc4e 100644
+--- tests/testthat/test-connection.R
++++ tests/testthat/test-connection.R
+@@ -116,12 +116,16 @@ test_that("vroom_fwf() doesn't leak a connection when opening fails (permission
+   Sys.chmod(tfile, mode = "000") # Remove all permissions
+   connections_before <- showConnections(all = TRUE)
+ 
+-  # Not using snapshots, because not our error or warning
+-  expect_error(
+-    expect_warning(
++  # It is conceivable that this vroom_fwf() will succeed if, for example, tests
++  # are being run by root?
++  # See https://github.com/tidyverse/vroom/issues/611
++  # Therefore, we don't state a hard expectation around error or warning.
++  # We just care that connections don't leak.
++  try(
++    suppressWarnings(
+       vroom_fwf(file(tfile), fwf_widths(c(6, 6, 6)), show_col_types = FALSE)
+     ),
+-    "cannot open"
++    silent = TRUE
+   )
+ 
+   connections_after <- showConnections(all = TRUE)