diff --git a/R-package/R/xgb.cv.R b/R-package/R/xgb.cv.R
index 652d52995..e2a2c37b7 100644
--- a/R-package/R/xgb.cv.R
+++ b/R-package/R/xgb.cv.R
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 #'   \item \code{params} parameters that were passed to the xgboost library. Note that it does not 
 #'         capture parameters changed by the \code{\link{cb.reset.parameters}} callback.
 #'   \item \code{callbacks} callback functions that were either automatically assigned or 
-#'         explicitely passed.
+#'         explicitly passed.
 #'   \item \code{evaluation_log} evaluation history storead as a \code{data.table} with the
 #'         first column corresponding to iteration number and the rest corresponding to the 
 #'         CV-based evaluation means and standard deviations for the training and test CV-sets.