diff --git a/dev-R/txtplot/Manifest b/dev-R/txtplot/Manifest
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+DIST txtplot_1.0-4.tar.gz 11632 BLAKE2B 9d9332d0349461cd120b007b290a646a17014f347d4a15831edd2112a1c7749def7ee882d3a616f1bdbf4ff300a1e11ed8652e046f55431995b1344ca7798a17 SHA512 ebaaf7d685ce1ca6dd2fe09459834b452e5a82ddea0637eaceca057c34d4594e29a754e8c5ccebe7557e3a743abdd7a22f4be217d1be3fd0e56bfa05e6814b44
diff --git a/dev-R/txtplot/metadata.xml b/dev-R/txtplot/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>
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription>
+		Text Based Plots // Provides functions to produce rudimentary
+		ascii graphics directly in the terminal window. Provides a
+		basic plotting function (and equivalents of curve, density, acf
+		and barplot) as well as boxplot and image functions.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/txtplot/txtplot-1.0.4.ebuild b/dev-R/txtplot/txtplot-1.0.4.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
+
+MYPV=$(ver_rs 2 -)
+
+DESCRIPTION='Text Based Plots'
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${PN}_${MYPV}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='LGPL-3+'