  Motivated by the concept of weakly clean rings, we introduce the concept of
weakly $r$-clean rings. We define an element $x$ of a ring $R$ as weakly
$r$-clean if it can be expressed as $x=r+e$ or $x=r-e$ where $e$ is an
idempotent and $r$ is a regular element of $R$. If all the elements of $R$ are
weakly $r$-clean then $R$ is called a weakly $r$-clean ring. We discuss some of
its properties in this article. Also we generalise this concept of weakly
$r$-clean ring to weakly $g(x)$-$r$-clean ring, where $g(x) \in C(R)[x]$ and
$C(R)$ is the centre of the ring $R$. Finally we introduce the concept of
weakly $\star$-clean and $\star$-$r$-clean ring and discuss some of their
properties.
