diff --git a/dev-R/data_table/Manifest b/dev-R/data_table/Manifest
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+DIST data.table_1.14.2.tar.gz 5301817 BLAKE2B 214872e0afd77e83bfed727db51fd1750d9e098f065f6326eb5b9a40e1f8bd09456bd7692dfc5018afab88e430425ea77918ad8c3bcc348893ac17c5ff9b1162 SHA512 6dabef158974554fa470ba57b190be8718b2e0029c0e8be722dc11ab35b5c6ff7538341da516286b97a770caa285fcda414b26e15c4672e86d603e63438ceca8
diff --git a/dev-R/data_table/data_table-1.14.2.ebuild b/dev-R/data_table/data_table-1.14.2.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="Various Programming Utilities"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MPL-2.0'
+CRAN_PN="data.table"
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${CRAN_PN}_${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	>=dev-R/bit64-4.0.0
+	>=dev-R/bit-4.0.4
+	dev-R/curl
+	dev-R/R_utils
+	dev-R/xts
+	dev-R/nanotime
+	>=dev-R/zoo-1.8.1
+	dev-R/yaml
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${P}/tests" || die
+	R_LIBS="${T}/R" edo Rscript --vanilla main.R
+}
diff --git a/dev-R/data_table/metadata.xml b/dev-R/data_table/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">Fast aggregation of large data (e.g. 100GB in RAM), fast ordered joins, fast add/modify/delete of columns by group using no copies at all, list columns, friendly and fast character-separated-value read/write. Offers a natural and flexible syntax, for faster development.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Matt Dowle</name>
+			<email>mattjdowle@gmail.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">Rdatatable/data.table</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>