diff --git a/dev-R/R6/Manifest b/dev-R/R6/Manifest
index 8e57d266de..6649aa3f3a 100644
--- a/dev-R/R6/Manifest
+++ b/dev-R/R6/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST R6_2.4.1.tar.gz 35536 BLAKE2B 0a2e7664d0b5911fe0f6c40bd80314ed6a100cbce9c9afe60a166e9fa0da773d16c0db545b28992b543d5a380c45bd977413026e422be13ca4706a4b0d7137e8 SHA512 bf165edf15f4fb3a4ad94b80bcf96f255b6889649b40c7f27af10841a55d81d02f8a42707fc08a5bcadfa94d77d67f4617739a75b3e7d99ba57bb9100dde98b0
+DIST R6_2.5.0.tar.gz 63361 BLAKE2B 52320699e5a10698345e741b7790d54bdcc252ed32e84e3468eaded7289c5b28a922df841d36e09d31a566d84ad083f1296d305141bae71279bcb0a578f553df SHA512 09cfd4c5bde6ff46ec64622e81e24e944f325e720f6a65d476faca045505954e66a6a0efe9abeb9c88646c8071cda1c0267e325a342f00ee1933694d4d3a22c7
diff --git a/dev-R/R6/R6-2.5.0.ebuild b/dev-R/R6/R6-2.5.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54e90d5fdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-R/R6/R6-2.5.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+inherit R-packages-guru
+
+DESCRIPTION='Encapsulated Classes with Reference Semantics'
+SRC_URI="http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${PN}_${PV}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://r6.r-lib.org
+	https://github.com/r-lib/R6
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=R6
+"
+IUSE="${IUSE-}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+DEPEND=">=dev-lang/R-3.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"