diff --git a/dev-R/ids/Manifest b/dev-R/ids/Manifest
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+DIST ids_1.0.1.tar.gz 91213 BLAKE2B 550bd19df5ca0fc966e58b88a62afd1e6656d727e741517ca0128fe4ec5e22afde588d96f76218e559f6f30f188e1c86cba3ce4f6a50135a6203073706bfb990 SHA512 132fc37ba07695a26791596e348079a2275acc1d92bac736b3b6edd4128c61270cb9bc38b8a00e8bd848fd15a91d4c672154f630bb8d6a270bbdcbe8344be18c
diff --git a/dev-R/ids/ids-1.0.1.ebuild b/dev-R/ids/ids-1.0.1.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='Generate Random Identifiers'
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/richfitz/ids
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=ids
+"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-R/openssl
+	dev-R/uuid
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rcorpora
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+	dev-R/testthat
+"
diff --git a/dev-R/ids/metadata.xml b/dev-R/ids/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">
+		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Rich FitzJohn</name>
+			<email>rich.fitzjohn@gmail.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/richfitz/ids/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">richfitz/ids</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>