diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/R-package/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Description: This package is a R wrapper of xgboost, which is short for eXtreme
     parallel computation with OpenMP, and it can be more than 10 times faster
     than existing gradient boosting packages such as gbm. It supports various
     objective functions, including regression, classification and ranking. The
-    package is made to be extensible, so that user are also allowed to define
+    package is made to be extensible, so that users are also allowed to define
     their own objectives easily.
 License: Apache License (== 2.0) | file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost