diff --git a/dev-R/bit/Manifest b/dev-R/bit/Manifest
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+DIST bit_4.0.4.tar.gz 279723 BLAKE2B 83fb8e8435039cbcff859ff6b186b924277ead8aa996e1fad60dbc6d2c23b98ce3789b6c9d2f57f52430a1d2c146fbef98ea7c63698e15a3c4625df25fd0fa93 SHA512 a570926aaabd2adb21940f310d096c50b21e261a746343fe502cedfb7aa84432037e1b197c41d0a433e15f1baf15af0fad61ba442f1c1fe5688b7c41e08d43af
diff --git a/dev-R/bit/bit-4.0.4.ebuild b/dev-R/bit/bit-4.0.4.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='Classes and Methods for Fast Memory-Efficient Boolean Selections'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='GPL2 GPL3'
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+IUSE="test"
+DEPEND="
+	test? ( >=dev-R/testthat-0.11.0 )
+"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	>=dev-R/testthat-0.11.0
+	dev-R/roxygen2
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+	dev-R/microbenchmark
+	>=dev-R/bit64-4.0.0
+	>=dev-R/ff-4.0.0
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${P}/tests"
+	NOT_CRAN=true R_LIBS="${T}/R" edo Rscript --vanilla testthat.R
+}
diff --git a/dev-R/bit/metadata.xml b/dev-R/bit/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">Provided are classes for boolean and skewed boolean vectors, fast boolean methods, fast unique and non-unique integer sorting, fast set operations on sorted and unsorted sets of integers, and foundations for ff (range index, compression, chunked processing).</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Jens Oehlschlägel</name>
+			<email>Jens.Oehlschlaegel@truecluster.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/truecluster/bit/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">truecluster/bit</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>