diff --git a/dev-R/pkgsearch/Manifest b/dev-R/pkgsearch/Manifest
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+DIST pkgsearch_3.1.0.tar.gz 45559 BLAKE2B dcf5f5f60cb7bdb33b45a9ca895ed60ce229a513e0f1dbc324b7ac546fe45922ca94168ab5445ba3f730049b7a1ac734d8de54a97817db069919f8095137aafb SHA512 9c3f5828d28ffee24a1a5498a4d6a3c8b82eb696b52da3a89925187cb44eb2d8b89564cb508d0eedd96d9d4815dbf203ebc60ae9ead7e53f3ca4f7f7f7c9de23
diff --git a/dev-R/pkgsearch/metadata.xml b/dev-R/pkgsearch/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">
+		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		Search and Query CRAN R Packages // Search CRAN metadata about
+		packages by keyword, popularity, recent activity, package name
+		and more. Uses the 'R-hub' search server, see https://r-pkg.org
+		and the CRAN metadata database, that contains information about
+		CRAN packages. Note that this is _not_ a CRAN project.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/pkgsearch/pkgsearch-3.1.0.ebuild b/dev-R/pkgsearch/pkgsearch-3.1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Search and Query CRAN R Packages'
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/r-hub/pkgsearch
+	https://r-hub.github.io/pkgsearch/
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgsearch
+"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-R/curl
+	dev-R/jsonlite
+	dev-R/prettyunits
+	>=dev-R/parsedate-1.3.0
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/covr
+	dev-R/memoise
+	dev-R/mockery
+	dev-R/pillar
+	>=dev-R/pingr-2.0.0
+	dev-R/rstudioapi
+	dev-R/shiny
+	dev-R/shinyjs
+	dev-R/shinyWidgets
+	>=dev-R/testthat-2.1.0
+	dev-R/whoami
+"