diff --git a/dev-R/processx/Manifest b/dev-R/processx/Manifest
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+DIST processx_3.5.2.tar.gz 141424 BLAKE2B 383db517c9829087938a3d6dc77b5b65cb9c9fe12a74c32dd6529baab2294b1fdf5b397565cb03fcb131b40fe764a037a39e31fe9599502fdd43578ad632ba52 SHA512 1f7bcbc6acbb28e34286525e4b43979afec077f8ace823516ed8779cbae75f6252363aa4d722e6fad3049f8835190700b4abe094188ccb68ce6436bfa7ad0c7b
diff --git a/dev-R/processx/metadata.xml b/dev-R/processx/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>
+		Execute and Control System Processes // Tools to run system
+		processes in the background. It can check if a background
+		process is running; wait on a background process to finish; get
+		the exit status of finished processes; kill background
+		processes. It can read the standard output and error of the
+		processes, using non-blocking connections. 'processx' can poll
+		a process for standard output or error, with a timeout. It can
+		also poll several processes at once.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/processx/processx-3.5.2.ebuild b/dev-R/processx/processx-3.5.2.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='Execute and Control System Processes'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-R/ps-1.2.0
+	dev-R/R6
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"