diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
index 5eacf27ecf..8affb8fe05 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
@@ -11504,7 +11504,7 @@ terminals that do not support Unicode.")
              ;; This is necessary because git looks for $HOME/.gitconfig
              (setenv "HOME" "/tmp"))))))
     (inputs
-     `(("git" ,git-minimal)))
+     (list git-minimal))
     (propagated-inputs
      (list r-askpass r-curl r-jsonlite r-openssl r-sys))
     (native-inputs