diff --git a/dev-R/promises/Manifest b/dev-R/promises/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..036ebe76a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-R/promises/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST promises_1.2.0.1.tar.gz 3120504 BLAKE2B ab3eea44fe319a2b03689a2ff33e647563529432d9ae03ea00c75b767a985072b8b89647360c50f617ab35b1ba48e216fd3735cf9a20347d26101408ea35c5cd SHA512 8de6e45a790475826b1be5a442360b003174c17583d07cf47442b0efbffa2e0932245dbab44e8cc59e75a3e7443b3fc864c2d17babdf3e472bf88c2db5199335
diff --git a/dev-R/promises/metadata.xml b/dev-R/promises/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fa89465b70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-R/promises/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>me@r0bert.dev</email>
+		<name>Robert Greener</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">Provides fundamental abstractions for doing asynchronous programming in R using promises. Asynchronous programming is useful for allowing a single R process to orchestrate multiple tasks in the background while also attending to something else. Semantics are similar to 'JavaScript' promises, but with a syntax that is idiomatic R.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Joe Cheng</name>
+			<email>joe@rstudio.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/rstudio/promises/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">rstudio/promises</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/promises/promises-1.2.0.1.ebuild b/dev-R/promises/promises-1.2.0.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ec488480f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-R/promises/promises-1.2.0.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages edo
+
+DESCRIPTION='Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-R/R6
+	dev-R/Rcpp
+	dev-R/later
+	dev-R/rlang
+	dev-R/magrittr
+	test? (
+		dev-R/testthat
+		>=dev-R/future-1.21.0
+		>=dev-R/fastmap-1.1.0
+	)
+"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/testthat
+	>=dev-R/future-1.21.0
+	>=dev-R/fastmap-1.1.0
+	dev-R/purrr
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+	dev-R/vembedr
+	dev-R/spelling
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${P}/tests"
+	NOT_CRAN=true R_LIBS="${T}/R" edo Rscript --vanilla testthat.R
+}