diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-igraph/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-igraph/package.py
index 0f3bcb576cd..100ea007a9c 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-igraph/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-igraph/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 
 class RIgraph(RPackage):
-    """Routines for simple graphs and network analysis. It can handle large
+    """Network Analysis and Visualization
+
+    Routines for simple graphs and network analysis. It can handle large
     graphs very well and provides functions for generating random and regular
     graphs, graph visualization, centrality methods and much more."""
 
@@ -15,13 +17,14 @@ class RIgraph(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/igraph_1.0.1.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/igraph"
 
+    version('1.2.6', sha256='640da72166fda84bea2c0e5eee374f1ed80cd9439c1171d056b1b1737ae6c76d')
     version('1.2.4.1', sha256='891acc763b5a4a4a245358a95dee69280f4013c342f14dd6a438e7bb2bf2e480')
     version('1.2.4', sha256='1048eb26ab6b592815bc269c1d91e974c86c9ab827ccb80ae0a40042019592cb')
     version('1.1.2', sha256='89b16b41bc77949ea208419e52a18b78b5d418c7fedc52cd47d06a51a6e746ec')
     version('1.0.1', sha256='dc64ed09b8b5f8d66ed4936cde3491974d6bc5178dd259b6eab7ef3936aa5602')
 
-    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-magrittr', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-pkgconfig@2.0.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-irlba', when='@:1.1.9', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('gmp')