diff --git a/dev-R/withr/Manifest b/dev-R/withr/Manifest
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+DIST withr_2.4.2.tar.gz 94283 BLAKE2B 3dcdbf5403b5b4874314bc2a53370e7f22e9770cff140f913e1a6361c575a2153c839a47c01cd7f465ab359b44f8ac99ba192e9766b9440cea8037d4382d0b8f SHA512 b493e06d03a1710cddbd008a8ee76ec951541bbd9992e49a03a87d3f2ebbb4805441d3c17ccfba3546fdd14bc46e67afc40236e972642faf832ecf0f3c58f72f
diff --git a/dev-R/withr/metadata.xml b/dev-R/withr/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>
+		Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State // A set of
+		functions to run code 'with' safely and temporarily modified
+		global state. Many of these functions were originally a part of
+		the 'devtools' package, this provides a simple package with
+		limited dependencies to provide access to these functions.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/withr/withr-2.4.2.ebuild b/dev-R/withr/withr-2.4.2.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='Run Code With Temporarily Modified Global State'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND=">=dev-lang/R-3.2.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"