diff --git a/dev-R/callr/Manifest b/dev-R/callr/Manifest
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+DIST callr_3.7.0.tar.gz 74518 BLAKE2B 6e4ca448400eaf785baef766fcaa45699c3f57af433fd5e74bdd91b175dec51c0dafaf5ccb9c9c2db1755ae9b519a452f2a2eb2fa1d9ea465dcefd2dcd1b4ab2 SHA512 bca18993e498ceb0bc1acb7978d84fc105831ff0350237d5b039a005e4f87add6bdf501bfa544c4f2f292b10bacfa3a14cc4af64aae518ab31542e92d8620bef
diff --git a/dev-R/callr/callr-3.7.0.ebuild b/dev-R/callr/callr-3.7.0.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='Call R from R'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-R/processx-3.5.0
+	dev-R/R6
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-R/callr/metadata.xml b/dev-R/callr/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>
+		Call R from R // It is sometimes useful to perform a computation
+		in a separate R process, without affecting the current R
+		process at all. This packages does exactly that.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>