diff --git a/math/R/Makefile b/math/R/Makefile
index c10c0eeac474..05084ca7df1f 100644
--- a/math/R/Makefile
+++ b/math/R/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=		R
-DISTVERSION=		3.4.3
-PORTREVISION=		3
+DISTVERSION=		3.4.4
 CATEGORIES=		math lang
 MASTER_SITES=		CRAN/src/base/R-${PORTVERSION:C|\..*||}
 
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ OPTIONS_SINGLE_BLAS=	ATLAS OPENBLAS NETLIB RBLAS
 OPTIONS_SUB=		YES
 
 ATLAS_DESC=		ATLAS BLAS implementation
-FLANG_DESC=		Use flang instead of the default Fortran compiler
+FLANG_DESC=		Use experimental flang instead of default Fortran compiler
 GHOSTSCRIPT_DESC=	Graphics device for bitmap files via Ghostscript
 CAIROPANGO_DESC=	Cairo graphics device and Pango multi-language text
 INFO_DESC=		GNU info manuals
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ INFO_INFO=		R-FAQ R-admin R-data R-exts R-ints R-intro R-lang
 JPEG_IMPLIES=		X11
 JPEG_CONFIGURE_WITH=	jpeglib
 JPEG_CONFIGURE_ENV=	r_cv_header_jpeglib_h=yes
-JPEG_USES=		jpeg
+JPEG_USES=		jpeg pkgconfig
 LDOUBLE_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	long-double
 LETTER_CONFIGURE_ENV=	R_PAPERSIZE=letter
 MEMPROF_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	memory-profiling
diff --git a/math/R/distinfo b/math/R/distinfo
index cffb2640f293..0cb104503394 100644
--- a/math/R/distinfo
+++ b/math/R/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1512059911
-SHA256 (R-3.4.3.tar.gz) = 7a3cb831de5b4151e1f890113ed207527b7d4b16df9ec6b35e0964170007f426
-SIZE (R-3.4.3.tar.gz) = 30249655
+TIMESTAMP = 1521122202
+SHA256 (R-3.4.4.tar.gz) = b3e97d2fab7256d1c655c4075934725ba1cd7cb9237240a11bb22ccdad960337
+SIZE (R-3.4.4.tar.gz) = 30474612