--- a/components/r/r.p5m	Fri Nov 20 12:43:10 2015 -0800
+++ b/components/r/r.p5m	Fri Nov 20 14:57:30 2015 -0800
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 set name=pkg.fmri value=pkg:/runtime/r@$(IPS_COMPONENT_VERSION),$(BUILD_VERSION)
 set name=pkg.summary \
     value="Software environment for statistical computing and graphics"
+set name=pkg.description \
+    value="R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible."
 set name=com.oracle.info.description \
     value="the Software environment for statistical computing and graphics"
 set name=com.oracle.info.tpno value=$(TPNO)