diff --git a/dev-R/base64enc/Manifest b/dev-R/base64enc/Manifest
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+DIST base64enc_0.1-3.tar.gz 7833 BLAKE2B 1410fcf6f7031eaa2d93550797acaa1cb86c972076f6e69c1e59d9798e9fab494968a0ddaafc00ffc5e656065c6fb8ebb1fdec851d12200c17eb74cb3b1ceac8 SHA512 e486a4dd8ec8ec72285440c016e9e73d2e7f73dc864472ce7204bab15eb00f2cb26cf29c20dfb1e3087372aaaed961344dc84f691576c1ff64a58dc342341287
diff --git a/dev-R/base64enc/base64enc-0.1.3.ebuild b/dev-R/base64enc/base64enc-0.1.3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Tools for base64 encoding'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='GPL-2 GPL-3'
+CRAN_PV="0.1-3"
+
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${PN}_${CRAN_PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/dev-R/base64enc/metadata.xml b/dev-R/base64enc/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>me@r0bert.dev</email>
+		<name>Robert Greener</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">This package provides tools for handling base64 encoding. It is more flexible than the orphaned base64 package.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Simon Urbanek</name>
+			<email>Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org</email>
+		</maintainer>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>