diff --git a/dev-R/clipr/Manifest b/dev-R/clipr/Manifest
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+DIST clipr_0.8.0.tar.gz 21898 BLAKE2B 6b489ff1b8353942a327a550eaf9f1f693d74809515990b4e9dc666d7829532d89f368aeb081413dfb7a1e4aeedbb247c570f3187310078ea8bbf264d9b0bb2d SHA512 e3fad72072bd4d380cb69133d359a8f3b48aae3fc3eed78fd53fb23d35bdf4e2e4e43afecca4fb8870695c84198c065c0da216e68dd1ac17152c70ee8e698c85
diff --git a/dev-R/clipr/clipr-0.8.0.ebuild b/dev-R/clipr/clipr-0.8.0.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 edo
+
+DESCRIPTION='Read and Write from the System Clipboard'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='GPL-3'
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	|| ( x11-misc/xclip x11-misc/xsel gui-apps/wl-clipboard )
+	test? (
+		>=dev-R/testthat-2.0.0
+	)
+"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/covr
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+	>=dev-R/rstudioapi-0.5
+	>=dev-R/testthat-2.0.0
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${P}/tests" || die
+	NOT_CRAN=true R_LIBS="${T}/R" edo Rscript --vanilla testthat.R
+}
diff --git a/dev-R/clipr/metadata.xml b/dev-R/clipr/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">Simple utility functions to read from and write to the Windows, OS X, and X11 clipboards.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Matthew Lincoln</name>
+			<email>matthew.d.lincoln@gmail.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/mdlincoln/clipr/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">mdlincoln/clipr</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>