diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-chemminer/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-chemminer/PKGBUILD
index 22924338bf..dcee176734 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-chemminer/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-chemminer/PKGBUILD
@@ -51,14 +51,19 @@ optdepends=(
   r-scatterplot3d
   r-snow
 )
-source=("https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
-md5sums=('8dd1886811bdc4ac23c24fad60a9b238')
-b2sums=('ff0535357fe4fbb4578e5ab8b7d5211b7ec98afc6e95df83e857ff91bfa6ca22ea3161d4b8f680537f8334c2f05ef041f913f25fb0272073e3a0f4a1c0f08e27')
+source=("https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        "fix-build.patch")
+md5sums=('8dd1886811bdc4ac23c24fad60a9b238'
+         'baf06ba1ce78e6c96fc054079c2c3a24')
+b2sums=('ff0535357fe4fbb4578e5ab8b7d5211b7ec98afc6e95df83e857ff91bfa6ca22ea3161d4b8f680537f8334c2f05ef041f913f25fb0272073e3a0f4a1c0f08e27'
+        '81d3ce9b04dda305ac369c0a02cf2dc60e3ddb0f277af4a1d61aa9cc15878835e57f2d0a39aef0c2228fd7003337c424681d86318dfb8e9ae1bc9f3fc2e17337')
 
 build() {
   # generate R bindings
   cd "$_pkgname"
   ./runSwig.sh
+  # fix format string errors in the generated source
+  patch -Np1 -i ../fix-build.patch
   cd ..
 
   mkdir build
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-chemminer/fix-build.patch b/BioArchLinux/r-chemminer/fix-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..66c9ad7dc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-chemminer/fix-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/src/r_wrap.cc b/src/r_wrap.cc
+index 517da94..1da67b8 100644
+--- a/src/r_wrap.cc
++++ b/src/r_wrap.cc
+@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ SWIG_R_ConvertPacked(SEXP obj, void *ptr, size_t sz, swig_type_info *ty) {
+ 
+ 
+ SWIGINTERN void SWIG_R_Raise(SEXP obj, const char *msg) {
+-  Rf_error(Rf_isString(obj) ? CHAR(Rf_asChar(obj)) : msg);
++  Rf_error("%s", Rf_isString(obj) ? CHAR(Rf_asChar(obj)) : msg);
+ }
+ 
+