diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cardata/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cardata/package.py
index 236e4f0f97..50b56ac8e4 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cardata/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cardata/package.py
@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@
 
 
 class RCardata(RPackage):
-    """Datasets to Accompany J. Fox and S. Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied
-    Regression, Third Edition, Sage (forthcoming)."""
+    """Companion to Applied Regression Data Sets
+
+    Datasets to Accompany J. Fox and S. Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied
+    Regression, Third Edition, Sage (2019)."""
 
     homepage = "https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/car/"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/carData_3.0-2.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/carData"
 
+    version('3.0-4', sha256='cda6f5e3efc1d955a4a0625e9c33f90d49f5455840e88b3bd757129b86044724')
     version('3.0-2', sha256='3b5c4eff1cc1e456a5331084774503eaa06cf61fb7acf6b9e8a6bfabd5735494')
 
     depends_on('r@3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r@3.5:', when='@3.0-4:', type=('build', 'run'))