diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/Makefile b/textproc/R-cran-readxl/Makefile
index c6e740084ab2..df92aed4ba11 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-readxl/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	readxl
-DISTVERSION=	1.3.1
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Read Excel Files
 WWW=		https://readxl.tidyverse.org
 
-LICENSE=	GPLv3
+LICENSE=	MIT
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
+		R-cran-cpp11>=0.4.0:devel/R-cran-cpp11 \
 		R-cran-progress>0:devel/R-cran-progress
-RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-Rcpp>=0.12.18:devel/R-cran-Rcpp \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-cpp11>=0.4.0:devel/R-cran-cpp11 \
 		R-cran-tibble>=1.3.1:devel/R-cran-tibble \
 		R-cran-cellranger>0:textproc/R-cran-cellranger \
 		R-cran-progress>0:devel/R-cran-progress
 TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-covr>0:devel/R-cran-covr \
 		R-cran-rprojroot>=1.1:devel/R-cran-rprojroot \
 		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat \
 		R-cran-knitr>0:print/R-cran-knitr \
 		R-cran-rmarkdown>0:textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown
 
 USES=		cran:auto-plist,compiles
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/distinfo b/textproc/R-cran-readxl/distinfo
index 548a5fff8aca..173ac66e66df 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-readxl/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1554053523
-SHA256 (readxl_1.3.1.tar.gz) = 24b441713e2f46a3e7c6813230ad6ea4d4ddf7e0816ad76614f33094fbaaaa96
-SIZE (readxl_1.3.1.tar.gz) = 2056165
+TIMESTAMP = 1672253240
+SHA256 (readxl_1.4.1.tar.gz) = f6bebb7f940fb21baacd60345b7075c77eb1d026466c55e6a36148de680da1fa
+SIZE (readxl_1.4.1.tar.gz) = 2090383
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/files/patch-src_ColSpec.h b/textproc/R-cran-readxl/files/patch-src_ColSpec.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e50bd74bda1..000000000000
--- a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/files/patch-src_ColSpec.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- src/ColSpec.h.orig	2019-09-24 16:05:20 UTC
-+++ src/ColSpec.h
-@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
- #ifndef READXL_COLSPEC_
- #define READXL_COLSPEC_
- 
-+#include <sys/types.h>
- #include <Rcpp.h>
- #include <libxls/xls.h>
- #include "StringSet.h"
diff --git a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/pkg-descr b/textproc/R-cran-readxl/pkg-descr
index 503a66b5bf48..c69f62e39216 100644
--- a/textproc/R-cran-readxl/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/R-cran-readxl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 Import excel files into R. Supports '.xls' via the embedded 'libxls' C library
 <https://github.com/libxls/libxls> and '.xlsx' via the embedded 'RapidXML' C++
 library <http://rapidxml.sourceforge.net>. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux
 without external dependencies.
+
+See also <https://cran.r-project.org/package=readxl>.