diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD
index 70b4092f19..5bca1aaba1 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Maintainer: Guoyi Zhang <guoyizhang at malacology dot net>
 
 _pkgname=sparseMatrixStats
-_pkgver=1.16.0
+_pkgver=1.18.0
 pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
-pkgver=1.16.0
+pkgver=1.18.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Summary Statistics for Rows and Columns of Sparse Matrices'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ optdepends=(
   r-testthat
 )
 source=("https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('eed13a7335ef09168ece41481484a5e43c5281644d1e296af76d20a84d4e1312')
+sha256sums=('e5e090a99995246b0e93e14c11de01694e57cccec277820ae82bd0ebf915b73e')
 
 build() {
   R CMD INSTALL ${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz -l "${srcdir}"