diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix
index 80f020b6c50..a5049e4236b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "RStudio-${version}";
 
-  buildInputs = [ cmake boost zlib openssl R qt5.full qt5.qtwebkit qt5.qtwebchannel libuuid unzip ant jdk makeWrapper pandoc ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake unzip ant jdk makeWrapper pandoc ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ boost zlib openssl R qt5.full qt5.qtwebkit qt5.qtwebchannel libuuid ];
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
@@ -96,6 +98,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       cp ${pandoc}/bin/pandoc dependencies/common/pandoc/
     '';
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   cmakeFlags = [ "-DRSTUDIO_TARGET=Desktop" "-DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=$NIX_QT5_TMP/bin/qmake" ];
 
   desktopItem = makeDesktopItem {