diff --git a/dev-R/stringi/Manifest b/dev-R/stringi/Manifest
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+DIST stringi_1.6.2.tar.gz 7575370 BLAKE2B 603492272e0cc1f8720fbfb8e319bdf6771330af293dd7b4c133e96767df3c1ccb482559da312cf40eff99b7569ae351809a7c66dd748ce493cdc872a4650b41 SHA512 7c95135ace2d6f9806471181e96982752b4f33888d06ef661492170198f993776caa81c271edeac8baf83ceb9fa4d17b43795f534fcd3c9e009ad569baecc8e9
diff --git a/dev-R/stringi/metadata.xml b/dev-R/stringi/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<longdescription>
+		Character String Processing Facilities // A multitude of
+		character string/text/natural language processing tools:
+		pattern searching (e.g., with 'Java'-like regular expressions
+		or the 'Unicode' collation algorithm), random string
+		generation, case mapping, string transliteration,
+		concatenation, sorting, padding, wrapping, Unicode
+		normalisation, date-time formatting and parsing, and many more.
+		They are fast, consistent, convenient, and - thanks to 'ICU'
+		(International Components for Unicode) - portable across all
+		locales and platforms.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/stringi/stringi-1.6.2.ebuild b/dev-R/stringi/stringi-1.6.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Character String Processing Facilities'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE="GPL-2+ BSD public-domain MIT"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/R-3.1
+	>=dev-libs/icu-55
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"