diff --git a/dev-R/spelling/Manifest b/dev-R/spelling/Manifest
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+DIST spelling_2.2.tar.gz 10764 BLAKE2B a53401f79edd6930cb695dbba2225157b75cd917cd74556933d65facc2817a2ed226a5f48ca40eb4594d19b21e3424c96c68977309b99a546dca13af9f923e02 SHA512 53449c14d0146e9ccaefad518eb4aee7cedc12dc7744b405eb7c1f7b0dca0edcefcdfa7ce240be9a5531e95a24df92c685417f616ccdb30060d11794ca948604
diff --git a/dev-R/spelling/metadata.xml b/dev-R/spelling/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>
+		Tools for Spell Checking in R // Spell checking common document
+		formats including latex, markdown, manual pages, and
+		description files. Includes utilities to automate checking of
+		documentation and vignettes as a unit test during 'R CMD
+		check'. Both British and American English are supported out of
+		the box and other languages can be added. In addition, packages
+		may define a 'wordlist' to allow custom terminology without
+		having to abuse punctuation.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/spelling/spelling-2.2.ebuild b/dev-R/spelling/spelling-2.2.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='Tools for Spell Checking in R'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-R/commonmark
+	>=dev-R/hunspell-3.0
+	dev-R/xml2
+	dev-R/knitr
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"