diff --git a/dev-R/RcppParallel/Manifest b/dev-R/RcppParallel/Manifest
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+DIST RcppParallel_5.1.5.tar.gz 1967672 BLAKE2B 70b060cf3478009f8264a456d3fc10059c3595018c85ff2d7a8fe3c54cdc03bfdf811a1d72b7e62aac8585028bea63b733ac363e8c6c5475558257be6e2aae51 SHA512 d7d69fcad6087eb206dfe6337e00ddb1e0b8f1faa02ba57cd257173db98b6880edc35cb8f4b200132cd2692494f7e1c390432eb381892a04d1e3e797ee40da28
diff --git a/dev-R/RcppParallel/RcppParallel-5.1.5.ebuild b/dev-R/RcppParallel/RcppParallel-5.1.5.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 edo
+
+DESCRIPTION="Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='GPL-3+'
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-R/RUnit
+		dev-R/Rcpp
+	)
+	dev-cpp/tbb
+"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/RUnit
+	dev-R/Rcpp
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${P}/tests" || die
+	R_LIBS="${T}/R" edo Rscript --vanilla doRUnit.R
+}
diff --git a/dev-R/RcppParallel/metadata.xml b/dev-R/RcppParallel/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">
+		<email>me@r0bert.dev</email>
+		<name>Robert Greener</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">High level functions for parallel programming with 'Rcpp'. For example, the 'parallelFor()' function can be used to convert the work of a standard serial "for" loop into a parallel one and the 'parallelReduce()' function can be used for accumulating aggregate or other values.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Kevin Ushey</name>
+			<email>kevin@rstudio.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/RcppCore/RcppParallel/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">RcppCore/RcppParallel</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>