diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD
index 721dbc9161..7810269736 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-sparsematrixstats/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Maintainer: Guoyi Zhang <guoyizhang at malacology dot net>
 
 _pkgname=sparseMatrixStats
-_pkgver=1.6.0
+_pkgver=1.8.0
 pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
-pkgver=1.6.0
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=1.8.0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Summary Statistics for Rows and Columns of Sparse Matrices'
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://bioconductor.org/packages/${_pkgname}"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ optdepends=(
   r-testthat
 )
 source=("https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('a19bc467a08fed614c5905d6d2db5fab56d3781bf80993752287d86a1491d845')
+sha256sums=('a28fe0592793913b2c9c553bb15c71f741992ce88d27544475eb977bbc9a225c')
 
 build() {
   R CMD INSTALL ${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz -l "${srcdir}"