diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 1328a5f68bd..0930db822cf 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2453,3 +2453,4 @@ libipmidetect.so.0 freeipmi-1.5.1_1
 libsmpeg2-2.0.so.0 smpeg2-2.0.0_1
 libedac.so.1 libedac-0.18_1
 libxlsreader.so.1 libxls-1.4.0_1
+libR.so R-3.3.0_2
diff --git a/srcpkgs/R/template b/srcpkgs/R/template
index 4f4fd703b18..9a6153b200d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/R/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/R/template
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Template file for 'R'
 pkgname=R
 version=3.3.0
-revision=1
+revision=2
 nocross=yes
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--docdir=/usr/share/doc/R rdocdir=/usr/share/doc/R
- --with-lapack --with-blas
+ --with-lapack --with-blas --enable-R-shlib
  LIBnn=lib"
 hostmakedepends="gcc-fortran pkg-config perl less"
 makedepends="libgomp-devel readline-devel libXmu-devel libXt-devel