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diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index a7e4d0990d..00770e8fbb 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -5910,6 +5910,29 @@ features like automatically generated help options and usage texts,
 support for default values, positional argument support, etc.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
 
+(define-public r-optparse
+  (package
+    (name "r-optparse")
+    (version "1.3.2")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (cran-uri "optparse" version))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "1g8as89r91xxi5j5azsd6vrfrhg84mnfx2683j7pacdp8s33radw"))))
+    (build-system r-build-system)
+    (propagated-inputs
+     `(("r-getopt" ,r-getopt)))
+    (home-page
+     "https://github.com/trevorld/optparse")
+    (synopsis "Command line option parser")
+    (description
+     "This package provides a command line parser inspired by Python's
+@code{optparse} library to be used with Rscript to write shebang scripts
+that accept short and long options.")
+    (license license:gpl2+)))
+
 (define-public r-dnacopy
   (package
     (name "r-dnacopy")