diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gh/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gh/package.py
index f654fb1c04..b3d39918db 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gh/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gh/package.py
@@ -7,17 +7,22 @@
 
 
 class RGh(RPackage):
-    """Minimal client to access the 'GitHub' 'API'."""
+    """'GitHub' 'API'
+
+    Minimal client to access the 'GitHub' 'API'."""
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/r-lib/gh#readme"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/gh_1.0.1.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/gh"
 
+    version('1.2.0', sha256='2988440ed2ba4b241c8ffbafbfdad29493574980a9aeba210521dadda91f7eff')
     version('1.1.0', sha256='de9faf383c3fe5e87a75391d82cf71b1331b3c80cd00c4203146a303825d89ad')
     version('1.0.1', sha256='f3c02b16637ae390c3599265852d94b3de3ef585818b260d00e7812595b391d2')
 
-    depends_on('r-ini', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-jsonlite', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-cli', when='@1.1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-cli@2.0.1:', when='@1.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-gitcreds', when='@1.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-httr', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-httr@1.2:', when='@1.1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-cli', when='@1.1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ini', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-jsonlite', type=('build', 'run'))