diff --git a/dev-R/RcppArmadillo/Manifest b/dev-R/RcppArmadillo/Manifest
index bb6e382d96..051bc7d813 100644
--- a/dev-R/RcppArmadillo/Manifest
+++ b/dev-R/RcppArmadillo/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST RcppArmadillo_0.10.2.2.0.tar.gz 1661194 BLAKE2B 0c1de4e8d6278aa72c8bed99ca40a195b26cb6d23b2f45841d547c64247c1ffa398fd086874866c0764027737055fc60a420f105a2a443e74eb473a6e7c06885 SHA512 b068fae82278165d36756658fc3813302ad253bddc3d869034ab0fb81519596ca396e56bb35fe8cae372ff2d4557b55a52522698fcd6c2f30867c1f1b557b662
+DIST RcppArmadillo_0.10.8.1.0.tar.gz 1364404 BLAKE2B 263b3103c1ea86991732fd4a4254803863c85ff5e516417560cfced4b60cb9a0d50cde6db5f0eb9f07ea4814b285bf10da3d8131a434c9b20dfb44b6cbfa2808 SHA512 d1c3f445b1538cc79d1b422639321695e276a934d453084497a84a2ba48bc263614d140f5fd4cc2fb73e1ac565c56bbdd7e23a3b60448232178afd907d07e567
diff --git a/dev-R/RcppArmadillo/RcppArmadillo-0.10.8.1.0.ebuild b/dev-R/RcppArmadillo/RcppArmadillo-0.10.8.1.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf3082d453
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-R/RcppArmadillo/RcppArmadillo-0.10.8.1.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages eapi8-dosym
+
+MY_PV="$(ver_cut 2-3 ${PV})"
+
+DESCRIPTION='Rcpp Integration for the Armadillo templated linear algebra library'
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${PN}_${PV}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='GPL-2+'
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/R-3.3.0
+	>=dev-R/Rcpp-0.11.0
+	=sci-libs/armadillo-${MY_PV}*:=[lapack]
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/tinytest
+	>=dev-R/Matrix-1.3.0
+	dev-R/pkgKitten
+	dev-R/reticulate
+	dev-R/slam
+"
+
+#TODO: correctly link to lapack
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	#remove bundled
+	rm -r inst/include/armadillo_bits || die
+	rm inst/include/armadillo || die
+
+	#link to sci-libs/armadillo
+	ln -s "${ESYSROOT}"/usr/include/armadillo_bits inst/include/armadillo_bits || die
+	ln -s "${ESYSROOT}"/usr/include/armadillo inst/include/armadillo || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	R-packages_src_install
+
+	R_includedir="/usr/$(get_libdir)/R/site-library/${PN}/include"
+	dosym8 -r /usr/include/armadillo "${R_includedir}/armadillo"
+
+	dodir /usr/include/armadillo_bits
+	for file in "${ED}/${R_includedir}"/armadillo_bits/*; do
+		filename=$(basename "${file}")
+		dosym8 -r /usr/include/armadillo_bits/${filename} "${R_includedir}/armadillo_bits/${filename}"
+	done
+}