diff --git a/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile b/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile
index 12087e77ce0a..abc7cabab2f7 100644
--- a/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile
+++ b/print/R-cran-knitr/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
 PORTNAME=	knitr
-PORTVERSION=	1.40
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	1.42
 CATEGORIES=	print
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION}
 
-MAINTAINER=	tota@FreeBSD.org
+MAINTAINER=	ports@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
+		R-cran-xfun>=0.34:misc/R-cran-xfun
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
 
-USES=	cran:auto-plist
+USES=		cran:auto-plist
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo b/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo
index 1dd7ea05d598..91b0d3c6675f 100644
--- a/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo
+++ b/print/R-cran-knitr/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1662629480
-SHA256 (knitr_1.40.tar.gz) = 9b8f95ff367a0e52f024bda30315ec7cdd6a5b82371a1aaed95ab4eea78535bc
-SIZE (knitr_1.40.tar.gz) = 903328
+TIMESTAMP = 1682484219
+SHA256 (knitr_1.42.tar.gz) = 9344f1a0089e4da101def54aee38d7cfe3b2022d75c560141d8cc22ac65130f3
+SIZE (knitr_1.42.tar.gz) = 893585