diff --git a/dev-R/rappdirs/Manifest b/dev-R/rappdirs/Manifest
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+DIST rappdirs_0.3.3.tar.gz 12288 BLAKE2B 2dd360804783d56269f4f9c96cfe057ba431ee9d71e69227f2338feec06cbff555d1707e01a2830647a7d7421d7dbc56452b88b985971cf1feb5d21bc1452cea SHA512 e44bbcf2d113d92751660c73fc2023270097dc7da7ef15ab7ae70ed8f9709f14646b5b6ea90af465f728db55936736015959bab19692b3e4ca45a5c5ca62fb7b
diff --git a/dev-R/rappdirs/metadata.xml b/dev-R/rappdirs/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>
+		Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches,
+		and Logs // An easy way to determine which directories on the
+		users computer you should use to save data, caches and logs. A
+		port of Python's 'Appdirs'
+		(https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs) to R.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/rappdirs/rappdirs-0.3.3.ebuild b/dev-R/rappdirs/rappdirs-0.3.3.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='Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches, and Logs'
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=rappdirs
+	https://rappdirs.r-lib.org
+	https://github.com/r-lib/rappdirs
+"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND=">=dev-lang/R-3.2"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/covr
+	dev-R/roxygen2
+	>=dev-R/testthat-3.0.0
+	dev-R/withr
+"