diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cubature/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cubature/package.py
index 82aef73494..7536a7d92a 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cubature/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-cubature/package.py
@@ -7,14 +7,21 @@
 
 
 class RCubature(RPackage):
-    """Adaptive multivariate integration over hypercubes"""
+    """Adaptive multivariate integration over hypercubes
+
+    R wrappers around the cubature C library of Steven G. Johnson for adaptive
+    multivariate integration over hypercubes and the Cuba C library of Thomas
+    Hahn for deterministic and Monte Carlo integration. Scalar and vector
+    interfaces for  cubature and Cuba routines are provided"""
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=cubature"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/cubature_1.1-2.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/cubature"
 
+    version('2.0.4.1', sha256='383fbdf49d1cdf760ad5d88d353e69118c7c663cde126c5bdd33b6fecc50d400')
     version('2.0.3', sha256='79bf03ebdb64b0de1ef19d24051b9d922df9310254bee459bb47764522407a73')
     version('2.0.2', sha256='641165c665ff490c523bccc05c42bb6851e42676b6b366b55fc442a51a8fbe8c')
     version('1.1-2', sha256='0a05469bdc85d6bd8165a42a3fc5c35a06700d279e4e8b3cf4669df19edffeed')
 
     depends_on('r-rcpp', when='@2.0.3:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('gmake', type='build')