diff --git a/recipes/bioconductor-motifbreakr/meta.yaml b/recipes/bioconductor-motifbreakr/meta.yaml
index 691d3e0bde..3632a30cc7 100644
--- a/recipes/bioconductor-motifbreakr/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/bioconductor-motifbreakr/meta.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ source:
   md5: 66d72ab927fb1da866a9376416fc2e79
 build:
   number: 0
+  skip: True # [osx]
   rpaths:
     - lib/R/lib/
     - lib/
diff --git a/recipes/bioconductor-motifstack/meta.yaml b/recipes/bioconductor-motifstack/meta.yaml
index b86dc8433c..3d07012e47 100644
--- a/recipes/bioconductor-motifstack/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/bioconductor-motifstack/meta.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ source:
   md5: 0391df16d61699fbe22fa38e809fc2cb
 build:
   number: 0
+  skip: True # [osx]
   rpaths:
     - lib/R/lib/
     - lib/
diff --git a/recipes/bioconductor-motiv/meta.yaml b/recipes/bioconductor-motiv/meta.yaml
index 384e0328b2..e74e357ca1 100644
--- a/recipes/bioconductor-motiv/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/bioconductor-motiv/meta.yaml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ source:
 build:
   string: bioconductor_{{CONDA_R}}_gsl{{CONDA_GSL}}_{{PKG_BUILDNUM}}
   number: 0
+  skip: True # [osx]
   rpaths:
     - lib/R/lib/
     - lib/
diff --git a/recipes/r-multicool/meta.yaml b/recipes/r-multicool/meta.yaml
index b30c1f064e..8a3db7c9c9 100644
--- a/recipes/r-multicool/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/r-multicool/meta.yaml
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ source:
 
 build:
   number: 0
-  # segmentation fault on osx
-  skip: True # [osx]
 
   rpaths:
     - lib/R/lib/
@@ -23,7 +21,6 @@ requirements:
     - r-base
     - r-rcpp >=0.11.2
     - gcc  # [not osx]
-    - llvm  # [osx]
 
   run:
     - r-base
diff --git a/sorted-r-blacklist b/sorted-r-blacklist
index bcf3d90df0..8d79b2a3f2 100644
--- a/sorted-r-blacklist
+++ b/sorted-r-blacklist
@@ -5,14 +5,6 @@ recipes/cap-mirseq
 # conflicts with recent Rcpp version
 recipes/r-histonehmm
 
-# error: the built package <> cannot be found
-recipes/r-spp
-recipes/bioconductor-motiv
-
-# depends on bioconductor-motiv
-recipes/bioconductor-motifbreakr
-recipes/bioconductor-motifstack
-
 # mgkit.DependencyError: The 'matplotlib' package is required
 # despite matplotlib being listed in the requirements
 recipes/mgkit