diff --git a/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix b/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
index 32989e45449..2d5ec2312fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ let
     stringi = [ pkgs.icu.dev ];
     survSNP = [ pkgs.gsl_1 ];
     sysfonts = [ pkgs.zlib pkgs.libpng pkgs.freetype.dev ];
+    systemfonts = [ pkgs.fontconfig.dev pkgs.freetype.dev ];
     TAQMNGR = [ pkgs.zlib.dev ];
     tesseract = [ pkgs.tesseract pkgs.leptonica ];
     tiff = [ pkgs.libtiff.dev ];
@@ -424,6 +425,7 @@ let
     spate = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
     stringi = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
     sysfonts = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
+    systemfonts = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
     tesseract = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
     Cairo = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
     Rsymphony = [ pkgs.pkgconfig pkgs.doxygen pkgs.graphviz pkgs.subversion ];