diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-brew/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-brew/package.py
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index 0000000000..111606d576
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+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-brew/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RBrew(Package):
+    """brew implements a templating framework for mixing text and R code for
+    report generation. brew template syntax is similar to PHP, Ruby's erb
+    module, Java Server Pages, and Python's psp module."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=brew"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/brew_1.0-6.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/brew"
+
+    version('1.0-6', '4aaca5e6ec145e0fc0fe6375ce1f3806')
+
+    extends('R')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        R('CMD', 'INSTALL', '--library={0}'.format(self.module.r_lib_dir),
+          self.stage.source_path)
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-roxygen2/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-roxygen2/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f4b8dcafa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-roxygen2/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RRoxygen2(Package):
+    """A 'Doxygen'-like in-source documentation system for Rd, collation, and
+    'NAMESPACE' files."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/klutometis/roxygen"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/roxygen2_5.0.1.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/roxygen2"
+
+    version('5.0.1', 'df5bdbc12fda372e427710ef1cd92ed7')
+
+    extends('R')
+
+    depends_on('r-stringr', type=nolink)
+    depends_on('r-stringi', type=nolink)
+    depends_on('r-brew', type=nolink)
+    depends_on('r-digest', type=nolink)
+    depends_on('r-rcpp', type=nolink)
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        R('CMD', 'INSTALL', '--library={0}'.format(self.module.r_lib_dir),
+          self.stage.source_path)