diff --git a/dev-R/png/Manifest b/dev-R/png/Manifest
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+DIST png_0.1-7.tar.gz 24990 BLAKE2B 97fdc6de3dc6646d09ce57cf4b294e73566ee4d2d29bd89870a84bdd2b76b1eea8925e01a272383f5cd8440eb50990fb202c96cd433992d51408661b80b02b32 SHA512 033a2a45e0fc55a9975257397162ceac0416afb47bbf266025e1ed00790ea1261d1254255aa09cd8828e034b0cd8006cc5e26c9f732ec996dcbec3c937e00f5f
diff --git a/dev-R/png/metadata.xml b/dev-R/png/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>
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription>
+		Read and write PNG images // This package provides an easy and
+		simple way to read, write and display bitmap images stored in
+		the PNG format. It can read and write both files and in-memory
+		raw vectors.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/png/png-0.1.7.ebuild b/dev-R/png/png-0.1.7.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+MYPV="$(ver_rs 2 -)"
+
+DESCRIPTION='Read and write PNG images'
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=png
+	http://www.rforge.net/png/
+"
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${PN}_${MYPV}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='|| ( GPL-2 GPL-3 )'
+
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	media-libs/libpng
+"