diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-httpuv/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-httpuv/package.py
index 8ff36d1e96..b4acb7550d 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-httpuv/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-httpuv/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 
 class RHttpuv(RPackage):
-    """Provides low-level socket and protocol support for handling HTTP and
+    """HTTP and WebSocket Server Library
+
+    Provides low-level socket and protocol support for handling HTTP and
     WebSocket requests directly from within R. It is primarily intended as a
     building block for other packages, rather than making it particularly easy
     to create complete web applications using httpuv alone. httpuv is built on
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ class RHttpuv(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/httpuv_1.3.5.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/httpuv"
 
+    version('1.5.5', sha256='0be6c98927c7859d4bbfbbec8822c9f5e95352077d87640a76bc2ade07c83117')
     version('1.5.1', sha256='b5bb6b3b2f1a6d792568a70f3f357d6b3a35a5e26dd0c668c61a31f2ae8f5710')
     version('1.3.5', sha256='4336b993afccca2a194aca577b1975b89a35ac863423b18a11cdbb3f8470e4e9')
     version('1.3.3', sha256='bb37452ddc4d9381bee84cdf524582859af6a988e291debb71c8a2e120d02b2a')
@@ -28,4 +31,5 @@ class RHttpuv(RPackage):
     depends_on('r-r6', when='@1.5.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-promises', when='@1.5.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-later@0.8.0:', when='@1.5.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-bh', when='@1.5.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('gmake', type='build')