diff --git a/dev-R/rex/Manifest b/dev-R/rex/Manifest
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+DIST rex_1.2.0.tar.gz 91925 BLAKE2B 396700b0ac552853aabbf40c3ebb50557c49286f4b929c2d4441cf680422a295d3a0b84b451e97bb565ac635f5c262428e6382b75362fe19dc939bc15afe8ebb SHA512 32f3d02be639c28036360ff42444c49a5c556086a645dba454eb99b31a84cbc92ffe1da77a66c7bd959efc4c850fc3a7cc42cea1cb963eaab665c338e60a5bb9
diff --git a/dev-R/rex/metadata.xml b/dev-R/rex/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>
+		Friendly Regular Expressions // A friendly interface for the
+		construction of regular expressions.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/rex/rex-1.2.0.ebuild b/dev-R/rex/rex-1.2.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Friendly Regular Expressions'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND="dev-R/lazyeval"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"