diff --git a/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix b/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
index a2570c8384f..6a36f9ca7b4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ let
     sdcTable = [ pkgs.gmp pkgs.glpk ];
     seewave = [ pkgs.fftw.dev pkgs.libsndfile.dev ];
     seqinr = [ pkgs.zlib.dev ];
-    seqminer = [ pkgs.zlib pkgs.bzip2 ];
+    seqminer = [ pkgs.zlib.dev pkgs.bzip2 ];
     showtext = [ pkgs.zlib pkgs.libpng pkgs.icu pkgs.freetype ];
     simplexreg = [ pkgs.gsl_1 ];
     SOD = [ pkgs.cudatoolkit ]; # requres CL/cl.h