diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
index ee844f5ede..b195320a88 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
@@ -4536,6 +4536,36 @@ and combinations thereof.  Implements the machinery described in the paper
 2015, Volume 24, Issue 3).  Michael Lim & Trevor Hastie (2015)")
     (license license:gpl2)))
 
+(define-public r-glmnet
+  (package
+   (name "r-glmnet")
+   (version "4.1-8")
+   (source
+    (origin
+     (method url-fetch)
+     (uri (cran-uri "glmnet" version))
+     (sha256
+      (base32 "1znw1p1mi7nv39l7albcg6sfxj7a1jyjw85hb3ginv870z7fbnqx"))))
+   (build-system r-build-system)
+   (native-inputs
+    (list gfortran r-knitr r-testthat))
+   (propagated-inputs
+    (list r-foreach
+          r-matrix
+          r-rcpp
+          r-rcppeigen
+          r-shape
+          r-survival))
+   (home-page "https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v033i01")
+   (synopsis "Lasso and elastic-net regularized generalized linear models")
+   (description
+    "The glmnet package provides efficient procedures for fitting the entire
+lasso or elastic-net regularization path for linear and Poisson regression, as
+well as logistic, multinomial, Cox, multiple-response Gaussian and grouped
+multinomial models.  The algorithm uses cyclical coordinate descent in a
+path-wise fashion.")
+   (license license:gpl2+)))
+
 (define-public r-glmpca
   (package
     (name "r-glmpca")
diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index 96bbd9ab0e..cdb6f60c8b 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -1961,36 +1961,6 @@ matrices.  It includes Cholesky decomposition and backsolving as well as
 standard R subsetting and Kronecker products.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
 
-(define-public r-glmnet
-  (package
-   (name "r-glmnet")
-   (version "4.1-8")
-   (source
-    (origin
-     (method url-fetch)
-     (uri (cran-uri "glmnet" version))
-     (sha256
-      (base32 "1znw1p1mi7nv39l7albcg6sfxj7a1jyjw85hb3ginv870z7fbnqx"))))
-   (build-system r-build-system)
-   (native-inputs
-    (list gfortran r-knitr r-testthat))
-   (propagated-inputs
-    (list r-foreach
-          r-matrix
-          r-rcpp
-          r-rcppeigen
-          r-shape
-          r-survival))
-   (home-page "https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v033i01")
-   (synopsis "Lasso and elastic-net regularized generalized linear models")
-   (description
-    "The glmnet package provides efficient procedures for fitting the entire
-lasso or elastic-net regularization path for linear and Poisson regression, as
-well as logistic, multinomial, Cox, multiple-response Gaussian and grouped
-multinomial models.  The algorithm uses cyclical coordinate descent in a
-path-wise fashion.")
-   (license license:gpl2+)))
-
 (define-public r-pkgmaker
   (package
     (name "r-pkgmaker")