diff --git a/dev-R/later/Manifest b/dev-R/later/Manifest
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+DIST later_1.3.0.tar.gz 63785 BLAKE2B ee453b9f1ac1b3b03403e0d5abaee0b2c16f05610b626edbce863ca502dc80d73282dfb79bcea9c751d21637151fe1ce7f1074494b25dc2e72bd9da065170bd4 SHA512 b55649fd50bdeea33cfee4740325dfe61bb8a5534e1de7043267a7b4f26846082b787ef048a4af22bfd3b2ae96cc3824727fb98a6570044ad53ee0c6e1824eaf
diff --git a/dev-R/later/later-1.3.0.ebuild b/dev-R/later/later-1.3.0.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='Utilities for Scheduling Functions to Execute Later with Event Loops'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-R/Rcpp-0.12.9
+	dev-R/rlang
+	test? (
+		>=dev-R/testthat-2.1.0
+	)
+"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/knitr
+	dev-R/rmarkdown
+	>=dev-R/testthat-2.1.0
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/${P}/tests"
+	R_LIBS="${T}/R" edo Rscript --vanilla testthat.R
+}
diff --git a/dev-R/later/metadata.xml b/dev-R/later/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">Executes arbitrary R or C functions some time after the current time, after the R execution stack has emptied. The functions are scheduled in an event loop.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Winston Chang</name>
+			<email>winston@rstudio.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/r-lib/later/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">r-lib/later</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>