diff --git a/dev-R/commonmark/Manifest b/dev-R/commonmark/Manifest
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+DIST commonmark_1.7.tar.gz 134002 BLAKE2B 10c6360037c39c6e9d31c238673af73a45ff262d354998d20b4f952611a45e98ae3498bd4f4dcd817fd878309609218d91d418d392243652a6fcb75d5b4f958d SHA512 23f384bae4cc46153f3dc61599234a17a04c9fef2eae0dca744a9a8b43768f8f96f779a0fbb7c3ff9f6ba39d3f3512bb382b32960bf2875cc5a5bb8de4ece5e9
diff --git a/dev-R/commonmark/commonmark-1.7.ebuild b/dev-R/commonmark/commonmark-1.7.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='High Performance CommonMark and github markdown rendering in R'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='BSD-2'
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-R/commonmark/metadata.xml b/dev-R/commonmark/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>
+		High Performance CommonMark and Github Markdown Rendering in R //
+		The CommonMark specification defines a rationalized version of
+		markdown syntax. This package uses the 'cmark' reference
+		implementation for converting markdown text into various
+		formats including html, latex and groff man. In addition it
+		exposes the markdown parse tree in xml format. Also includes
+		opt-in support for GFM extensions including tables, autolinks,
+		and strikethrough text.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>