diff --git a/dev-R/readxl/Manifest b/dev-R/readxl/Manifest
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+DIST readxl_1.4.0.tar.gz 2089229 BLAKE2B ed3442bc105ad87e6b3a9083094d1c23039f353fc630f29e90f07a6d1e970058eaad028c5bb897642e59a74db48ca21ce0e75e44ebf5d7096df64a7b0aa3e9d7 SHA512 5d1cf403c9fa6319e0ab9f53083b20c37d5381bf8f4b9cefe037692a2e637eb175a27661371a63ddd2755bfffbfee7bb2713d4090f6c8621c4626165c1fc45e5
diff --git a/dev-R/readxl/metadata.xml b/dev-R/readxl/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">Import excel files into R. Supports '.xls' via the embedded 'libxls' C library https://github.com/libxls/libxls and '.xlsx' via the embedded 'RapidXML' C++ library http://rapidxml.sourceforge.net. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux without external dependencies.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Jennifer Bryan</name>
+			<email>jenny@rstudio.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/tidyverse/readxl/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">tidyverse/readxl</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/readxl/readxl-1.4.0.ebuild b/dev-R/readxl/readxl-1.4.0.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="Read Excel Files"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-R/cellranger
+	>=dev-R/tibble-2.0.1
+	>=dev-R/cpp11-0.4.0
+	dev-R/progress
+	test? (
+		>=dev-R/testthat-3.0.0
+	)
+"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+	>=dev-R/testthat-3.0.0
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${P}/tests" || die
+	NOT_CRAN=true R_LIBS="${T}/R" edo Rscript --vanilla testthat.R
+}