diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/R/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/R/default.nix
index 30bbb24d551c..5de644dfdfac 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/R/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/R/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchurl, bzip2, gfortran, libX11, libXmu, libXt, libjpeg, libpng
 , libtiff, ncurses, pango, pcre2, perl, readline, tcl, texLive, tk, xz, zlib
 , less, texinfo, graphviz, icu, pkg-config, bison, imake, which, jdk, blas, lapack
-, curl, Cocoa, Foundation, libobjc, libcxx, tzdata, fetchpatch
+, curl, Cocoa, Foundation, libobjc, libcxx, tzdata
 , withRecommendedPackages ? true
 , enableStrictBarrier ? false
 # R as of writing does not support outputting both .so and .a files; it outputs: