diff --git a/dev-R/cpp11/Manifest b/dev-R/cpp11/Manifest
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+DIST cpp11_0.4.2.tar.gz 317708 BLAKE2B ce8bb0115edf90922cd70214b0dc7aaf92d6304ea7493cbbf603fe9cdf4496adb601ad15c9fac8ea47c77ffbd4fe151e80bd8363f5278f9bdfadce2fb2e2cd50 SHA512 078eff5924df78572fd50f443f4c04ca69a11b11a1a2986a2a20023ec05e5c0fcb3bcbad3a50873583e6637960925dc62e8afe2bdb6e3019cf2627ff50b0ff01
diff --git a/dev-R/cpp11/cpp11-0.4.2.ebuild b/dev-R/cpp11/cpp11-0.4.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='A C++11 Interface for Rs C Interface'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/bench
+	dev-R/brio
+	dev-R/callr
+	dev-R/cli
+	dev-R/covr
+	dev-R/decor
+	dev-R/desc
+	dev-R/ggplot2
+	dev-R/glue
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/lobstr
+	dev-R/mockery
+	dev-R/progress
+	dev-R/Rcpp
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+	dev-R/scales
+	dev-R/testthat
+	dev-R/tibble
+	dev-R/vctrs
+	dev-R/withr
+"
diff --git a/dev-R/cpp11/metadata.xml b/dev-R/cpp11/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>
+A C++11 Interface for R's C Interface // Provides a header only,
+C++11 interface to R's C interface.  Compared to other
+approaches 'cpp11' strives to be safe against long jumps from
+the C API as well as C++ exceptions, conform to normal R
+function semantics and supports interaction with 'ALTREP'
+vectors.
+  </longdescription>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/r-lib/cpp11/issues</bugs-to>
+    <doc lang="en">https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cpp11/cpp11.pdf</doc>
+    <changelog>https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cpp11/ChangeLog</changelog>
+    <maintainer>
+      <name>Romain François</name>
+      <email>romain@rstudio.com</email>
+    </maintainer>
+    <remote-id type="github">r-lib/cpp11</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>