diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
index 86d37e52f6..656b28e1c5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
@@ -529,13 +529,13 @@ particularly easy to create complete web applications using httpuv alone.")
 (define-public r-jsonlite
   (package
     (name "r-jsonlite")
-    (version "1.6")
+    (version "1.6.1")
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri (cran-uri "jsonlite" version))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "0lyvhnr6n57h3a89bvipii7x17nvfaycm9j5j50bfrlr48jv9ic8"))))
+                "0xrki07wc17bkmhz0h7jay784j1sls2i9bf1mfpj6yl59791v4kl"))))
     (build-system r-build-system)
     (home-page "https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2805")
     (synopsis "Robust, high performance JSON parser and generator for R")