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+DIST jsonlite_1.7.2.tar.gz 421716 BLAKE2B fa1fc59fefdd31085d0f1ccec02069f8bccfb6f73b3d21a459b47b17af7b2aef6db7e57886a609407d36569e9fe3e6ac9a6d98f1483fdb8cac14abfb3144b5cb SHA512 7156958ea4666440161c6d91a7bc988b674b06299aa3acae97cdedbe597353fa38ffcd276934cf7d8080ce560e7265db3ddd90c7a437cc44cc30756640023ed1
diff --git a/dev-R/jsonlite/jsonlite-1.7.2.ebuild b/dev-R/jsonlite/jsonlite-1.7.2.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='A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and generator for R'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
diff --git a/dev-R/jsonlite/metadata.xml b/dev-R/jsonlite/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>
+		A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and Generator for R // A
+		reasonably fast JSON parser and generator, optimized for
+		statistical data and the web. Offers simple, flexible tools for
+		working with JSON in R, and is particularly powerful for
+		building pipelines and interacting with a web API. The
+		implementation is based on the mapping described in the
+		vignette (Ooms, 2014). In addition to converting JSON data
+		from/to R objects, 'jsonlite' contains functions to stream,
+		validate, and prettify JSON data. The unit tests included with
+		the package verify that all edge cases are encoded and decoded
+		consistently for use with dynamic data in systems and
+		applications.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>