diff --git a/dev-R/sys/Manifest b/dev-R/sys/Manifest
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+DIST sys_3.4.tar.gz 20138 BLAKE2B 604619a39513fc31d297691395678045e02a7b0852930446f32c0d2b23404c21309a79323dc7615984aedcf2dda720d7cef632693291910da34b57b65943820b SHA512 e1f3ddc0b553d23dc4888905946670b23b39f83d9282b50925c18bd1fc4ba7da9ab51274c55e128117a6c7a377976202c4cc55c9d68ba9f4a3c6db5a8f27df8b
diff --git a/dev-R/sys/metadata.xml b/dev-R/sys/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>
+		Powerful and Reliable Tools for Running System Commands in R //
+		Drop-in replacements for the base system2() function with fine
+		control and consistent behavior across platforms. Supports
+		clean interruption, timeout, background tasks, and streaming
+		STDIN / STDOUT / STDERR over binary or text connections.
+		Arguments on Windows automatically get encoded and quoted to
+		work on different locales.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/sys/sys-3.4.ebuild b/dev-R/sys/sys-3.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Powerful and Reliable Tools for Running System Commands in R'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'