diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-checkpoint/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-checkpoint/package.py
index 8f946a67d7..6b5da99426 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-checkpoint/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-checkpoint/package.py
@@ -7,15 +7,29 @@
 
 
 class RCheckpoint(RPackage):
-    """The goal of checkpoint is to solve the problem of package
-    reproducibility in R. Specifically, checkpoint allows you to
-    install packages as they existed on CRAN on a specific snapshot
-    date as if you had a CRAN time machine."""
+    """Install Packages from Snapshots on the Checkpoint Server for Reproducibility
+
+    The goal of checkpoint is to solve the problem of package reproducibility
+    in R. Specifically, checkpoint allows you to install packages as they
+    existed on CRAN on a specific snapshot date as if you had a CRAN time
+    machine. To achieve reproducibility, the checkpoint() function installs the
+    packages required or called by your project and scripts to a local library
+    exactly as they existed at the specified point in time. Only those packages
+    are available to your project, thereby avoiding any package updates that
+    came later and may have altered your results. In this way, anyone using
+    checkpoint's checkpoint() can ensure the reproducibility of your scripts or
+    projects at any time. To create the snapshot archives, once a day (at
+    midnight UTC) Microsoft refreshes the Austria CRAN mirror on the "Microsoft
+    R Archived Network" server (<https://mran.microsoft.com/>). Immediately
+    after completion of the rsync mirror process, the process takes a snapshot,
+    thus creating the archive. Snapshot archives exist starting from
+    2014-09-17."""
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=checkpoint"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkpoint_0.4.6.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/checkpoint"
 
+    version('0.4.10', sha256='7362ae9703763fe4652d0b592cd913ce506f072a18e5cf5970d08d7cdf4d126a')
     version('0.4.6', sha256='fd1a5edb5cb1a40d7ed26bb196de566110fe2ef62e70b4e947c003576a03ebb2')
     version('0.4.3', sha256='c3e862f89f8838183d6028f7ed13683aec562e6dab77ad4b6a5e24ec653cfb64')
     version('0.3.15', sha256='09f1feeb2b5b8b409a2e16a9185827b8da5e555f1aa84442a287f15e452beed7')