diff --git a/devel/Makefile b/devel/Makefile
index 3bfcff7b2159..8cfa82bae57b 100644
--- a/devel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/Makefile
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
     SUBDIR += R-cran-purrr
     SUBDIR += R-cran-randomForest
     SUBDIR += R-cran-registry
+    SUBDIR += R-cran-rematch2
     SUBDIR += R-cran-repr
     SUBDIR += R-cran-reshape
     SUBDIR += R-cran-reshape2
diff --git a/devel/R-cran-rematch2/Makefile b/devel/R-cran-rematch2/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8720514a53d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/R-cran-rematch2/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+PORTNAME=	rematch2
+DISTVERSION=	2.1.2
+CATEGORIES=	devel
+DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION}
+
+MAINTAINER=	ygy@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Tidy Output from Regular Expression Matching
+
+LICENSE=	MIT
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
+
+RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-tibble>0:devel/R-cran-tibble
+TEST_DEPENDS=	R-cran-covr>0:devel/R-cran-covr \
+		R-cran-testthat>0:devel/R-cran-testthat
+
+USES=		cran:auto-plist
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/R-cran-rematch2/distinfo b/devel/R-cran-rematch2/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d283a1f40fcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/R-cran-rematch2/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1607405310
+SHA256 (rematch2_2.1.2.tar.gz) = fe9cbfe99dd7731a0a2a310900d999f80e7486775b67f3f8f388c30737faf7bb
+SIZE (rematch2_2.1.2.tar.gz) = 13366
diff --git a/devel/R-cran-rematch2/pkg-descr b/devel/R-cran-rematch2/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..644f0d556da7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/R-cran-rematch2/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Wrappers on 'regexpr' and 'gregexpr' to return the match results in tidy data
+frames.
+
+WWW: https://github.com/r-lib/rematch2#readme