diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-r/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-r/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..71e77b24ce4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-r/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, pkg-config, configurator, stdio, R }:
+
+buildDunePackage rec {
+  pname = "ocaml-r";
+  version = "0.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pveber";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "09gljccwjsw9693m1hm9hcyvgp3p2fvg3cfn18yyidpc2f81a4fy";
+  };
+
+  # Without the following patch, stub generation fails with:
+  # > Fatal error: exception (Failure "not supported: osVersion")
+  preConfigure = ''
+    substituteInPlace stubgen/stubgen.ml --replace  \
+    'failwithf "not supported: %s" name ()' \
+    'sprintf "(* not supported: %s *)" name'
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [ configurator pkg-config R stdio ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "OCaml bindings for the R interpreter";
+    inherit (src.meta) homepage;
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.bcdarwin ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index 7e12a3db3f78..68d45730d27f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -615,6 +615,8 @@ let
 
     pgocaml_ppx = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/pgocaml/ppx.nix {};
 
+    ocaml-r = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-r { };
+
     ocaml-sat-solvers = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-sat-solvers { };
 
     ocamlscript = callPackage ../development/tools/ocaml/ocamlscript { };