diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-pkgbuild/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-pkgbuild/package.py
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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RPkgbuild(RPackage):
+    """pkgbuild: Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages"""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgbuild"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/pkgbuild_1.0.3.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/pkgbuild/"
+
+    version('1.0.3', sha256='c93aceb499886e42bcd61eb7fb59e47a76c9ba5ab5349a426736d46c8ce21f4d')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-callr', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-cli', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-crayon', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-desc', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-prettyunits', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-r6', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rprojroot', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-withr', type=('build', 'run'))