diff --git a/finance/R-cran-TTR/Makefile b/finance/R-cran-TTR/Makefile
index 64a247505f13..2d1098146b02 100644
--- a/finance/R-cran-TTR/Makefile
+++ b/finance/R-cran-TTR/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,18 @@
 PORTNAME=	TTR
-DISTVERSION=	0.24.3
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	0.24.4
 CATEGORIES=	finance
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	tota@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Technical Trading Rules
 WWW=		https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TTR/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2+
 
-CRAN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-xts>=0.10.0:math/R-cran-xts \
-		R-cran-zoo>0:math/R-cran-zoo \
-		R-cran-curl>0:ftp/R-cran-curl
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${CRAN_DEPENDS}
+RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-curl>0:ftp/R-cran-curl \
+		R-cran-xts>=0.10.0:math/R-cran-xts \
+		R-cran-zoo>0:math/R-cran-zoo
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist,compiles
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/finance/R-cran-TTR/distinfo b/finance/R-cran-TTR/distinfo
index abe58e3d02aa..4b20d216ff24 100644
--- a/finance/R-cran-TTR/distinfo
+++ b/finance/R-cran-TTR/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1639486434
-SHA256 (TTR_0.24.3.tar.gz) = 4d9aef32647664be5cf965b05f21ed62cde9425fa87c21530852e05ef7aaba87
-SIZE (TTR_0.24.3.tar.gz) = 317338
+TIMESTAMP = 1702222047
+SHA256 (TTR_0.24.4.tar.gz) = 89732b9c359bae2f41cd23db649f0897c10fab0702d780c4c25a997322710284
+SIZE (TTR_0.24.4.tar.gz) = 318965
diff --git a/finance/R-cran-TTR/pkg-descr b/finance/R-cran-TTR/pkg-descr
index 4eb2618e2547..5024a1b181ab 100644
--- a/finance/R-cran-TTR/pkg-descr
+++ b/finance/R-cran-TTR/pkg-descr
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Functions and data to construct technical trading rules with R.
+A collection of over 50 technical indicators for creating technical
+trading rules. The package also provides fast implementations of
+common rolling-window functions, and several volatility calculations.