diff --git a/cmake/toolchain/heptools-rootext.cmake b/cmake/toolchain/heptools-rootext.cmake
index 8d0def4a4d5ca7fe12814c4e4b2cfb6055b49cd6..4ef15ca5f4020f7a6af19c103c567b54ccf06c9c 100644
--- a/cmake/toolchain/heptools-rootext.cmake
+++ b/cmake/toolchain/heptools-rootext.cmake
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ LCG_external_package(pyxml             0.8.4p1
 LCG_external_package(QMtest            2.4.1                                    )
 LCG_external_package(Qt                4.8.4                     qt             )
 LCG_external_package(qwt               6.0.1                                    )
+LCG_external_package(R                 3.2.0                                    )
 
 if(${LCG_OS}${LCG_OSVERS} STREQUAL slc6)
     LCG_external_package(sas           0.1.3                                    )
diff --git a/externals/CMakeLists.txt b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
index 7bb4671ff5d2689ca5af99fbe0289b586f59d057..907140b3ce96d56b8470e629df9536179782f968 100644
--- a/externals/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/externals/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -894,3 +894,12 @@ LCGPackage_Add(
   DEPENDS Python
 )
 
+#---R-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+LCGPackage_Add(
+  R
+  URL http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/src/base/R-3/R-${R_native_version}.tar.gz
+CONFIGURE_COMMAND ./configure --prefix=<INSTALL_DIR>
+                              CXX=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} CC=${CMAKE_C_COMPILER}
+  BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1
+)
+