diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index 7613ec8827..42e4efed55 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -2350,19 +2350,19 @@ functions make it easy to control additional request components.")
 (define-public r-git2r
   (package
     (name "r-git2r")
-    (version "0.23.0")
+    (version "0.24.0")
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri (cran-uri "git2r" version))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "01250jz255fnyy2ap90nskvzhd8nhlmbhwgpvb43mk1fax077lrz"))))
+                "0vfc25z4j53pc49cnp3zjwzjb72kvc0aq96wgyg10xpgvhl3z0gg"))))
     (build-system r-build-system)
     ;; This R package contains modified sources of libgit2.  This modified
     ;; version of libgit2 is built as the package is built.  Hence libgit2 is
     ;; not among the inputs of this package.
     (inputs
-     `(("libssh2" ,libssh2)
+     `(("libssh2" ,libssh2) ; for SSH transport
        ("openssl" ,openssl)
        ("zlib" ,zlib)))
     (native-inputs