diff --git a/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix b/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
index 529c6db091d3..6f1807b4138f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ let
     audio = [ pkgs.portaudio ];
     BayesSAE = [ pkgs.gsl_1 ];
     BayesVarSel = [ pkgs.gsl_1 ];
-    BayesXsrc = [ pkgs.readline pkgs.ncurses ];
+    BayesXsrc = [ pkgs.readline.dev pkgs.ncurses ];
     bigGP = [ pkgs.openmpi ];
     BiocCheck = [ pkgs.which ];
     Biostrings = [ pkgs.zlib ];