--- a/components/r/r-recommended.p5m	Fri Nov 20 12:43:10 2015 -0800
+++ b/components/r/r-recommended.p5m	Fri Nov 20 14:57:30 2015 -0800
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
     value=pkg:/group/feature/r-recommended@$(IPS_COMPONENT_VERSION),$(BUILD_VERSION)
 set name=pkg.summary \
     value="Software environment for statistical computing and graphics."
+set name=pkg.description \
+    value="Group package that depends on a set of packages that are recommended by the upstream R core team as part of a complete R distribution, and distributed along with the source of R itself, as well as directly via the CRAN network."
 set name=com.oracle.info.description \
     value="the Software environment for statistical computing and graphics."
 set name=com.oracle.info.tpno value=$(TPNO)