diff --git a/src/docker_modules/r/3.5.3/Dockerfile b/src/docker_modules/r/3.5.3/Dockerfile
index f1f2a15257e36c2cf449db391cab0d68bfbf9091..69d0cd2f7c34a84f892dea0bfcde823141af5ad3 100644
--- a/src/docker_modules/r/3.5.3/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/docker_modules/r/3.5.3/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 FROM rocker/r-ver:3.5.3
 MAINTAINER Remi Seraphin
 
+RUN apt update && \
+apt install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev git
 RUN R -e "install.packages('tidyverse'); \
           install.packages('ggplot2')"