diff --git a/dev-R/hunspell/hunspell-3.0.1.ebuild b/dev-R/hunspell/hunspell-3.0.1.ebuild
index 8f3a101c9a..2c06c116e7 100644
--- a/dev-R/hunspell/hunspell-3.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-R/hunspell/hunspell-3.0.1.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit R-packages
+inherit R-packages toolchain-funcs
 
 DESCRIPTION='High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer and Spell Checker'
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
@@ -20,3 +20,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 "
 
 #bundling status: https://github.com/ropensci/hunspell/issues/34
+src_prepare() {
+	tc-export AR
+	R-packages_src_prepare
+}
diff --git a/dev-R/hunspell/metadata.xml b/dev-R/hunspell/metadata.xml
index c511c6ca3a..23cc54c3dc 100644
--- a/dev-R/hunspell/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-R/hunspell/metadata.xml
@@ -16,4 +16,14 @@
 		package to automate checking of files, documentation and
 		vignettes in all common formats.
 	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/ropensci/hunspell/issues</bugs-to>
+		<doc lang="en">https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hunspell/hunspell.pdf</doc>
+		<changelog>https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hunspell/NEWS</changelog>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Jeroen Ooms</name>
+			<email>jeroen@berkeley.edu</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<remote-id type="github">ropensci/hunspell</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>