diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index 773cd3cad3..6286536cdd 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -1451,13 +1451,13 @@ emitter (http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML) for R.")
 (define-public r-knitr
   (package
     (name "r-knitr")
-    (version "1.24")
+    (version "1.25")
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri (cran-uri "knitr" version))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "12bvs9fd61m7k7bq321qzrh2ccl9rq653s1anrvfb9s5ni1j0378"))))
+                "0lsc201a4f6xksmsklhr6gmhl0mxih0xhlcdvhs2ypzcx1pvkpnv"))))
     (build-system r-build-system)
     (propagated-inputs
      `(("r-evaluate" ,r-evaluate)