diff --git a/dev-R/knitr/Manifest b/dev-R/knitr/Manifest
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+DIST knitr_1.33.tar.gz 892378 BLAKE2B 9569a9f6deb1178883c496ac12559467af4d603f9d6cc2d279555a0021b87f25e896611ad2e21459371ae7c03bb4e6937ec91c3da82b2f59eafda01b7ec6a251 SHA512 bf27f1b9face9eac504b329e17d778243fb0dfd699b2525e77fe6be8260284a7618db2db257856138754cb93b7a7ab03cd4fddacc348ec6c2f2c1432237f781a
diff --git a/dev-R/knitr/knitr-1.33.ebuild b/dev-R/knitr/knitr-1.33.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 General-Purpose Package for Dynamic report generation in R'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='GPL-2+'
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-R/yaml-2.1.19
+	>=dev-R/xfun-0.21
+	>=dev-R/evaluate-0.10
+	dev-R/highr
+	>=dev-lang/R-3.2.3
+	dev-R/markdown
+	>=dev-R/stringr-0.6
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	app-text/pandoc
+"
diff --git a/dev-R/knitr/metadata.xml b/dev-R/knitr/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 General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R //
+		Provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation
+		in R using Literate Programming techniques.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>