diff --git a/dev-R/uuid/Manifest b/dev-R/uuid/Manifest
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+DIST uuid_1.1-0.tar.gz 77959 BLAKE2B 28b7dac8bd1220abe8842fc8c48ef32a1d853aaf0a849f3ebed1bc27b2dc20b54536e2edd0667fc8743bdf54491e6994b6972592d354aa6c2433576b30cd43e9 SHA512 0e64565bec3ebd00d4710ab5b06c6a11df6da67e69e51967dd3470849196566a87a2654773593cd74dfcd580fd1f0fe2a57314b27a746fed708551e5b4181c4b
diff --git a/dev-R/uuid/metadata.xml b/dev-R/uuid/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>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Simon Urbanek</name>
+			<email>Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/s-u/uuid/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">s-u/uuid</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/uuid/uuid-1.1.0.ebuild b/dev-R/uuid/uuid-1.1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+MYPV="$(ver_rs 2 -)"
+
+DESCRIPTION='Tools for Generating and Handling of UUIDs'
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/s-u/uuid
+	https://www.rforge.net/uuid
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=uuid
+"
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${PN}_${MYPV}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'