diff --git a/virtual/lattice/lattice-0.ebuild b/virtual/lattice/lattice-0.ebuild
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+++ b/virtual/lattice/lattice-0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual of a R recommended package"
+HOMEPAGE=""
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE=""
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	|| (
+		dev-lang/R[-minimal]
+		dev-R/lattice
+	)
+"
diff --git a/virtual/lattice/metadata.xml b/virtual/lattice/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-needed -->
+</pkgmetadata>