diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-vctrs/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-vctrs/package.py
index 0a04383d8d..410be98f3e 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-vctrs/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-vctrs/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 
 class RVctrs(RPackage):
-    """Defines new notions of prototype and size that are used to provide tools
+    """Vector Helpers
+
+    Defines new notions of prototype and size that are used to provide tools
     for consistent and well-founded type-coercion and size-recycling, and are
     in turn connected to ideas of type- and size-stability useful for analyzing
     function interfaces."""
@@ -16,13 +18,15 @@ class RVctrs(RPackage):
     url      = "https://github.com/r-lib/vctrs/archive/v0.3.5.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/vctrs"
 
+    version('0.3.6', sha256='5869a2cc2cb62ccb6f7ff7e8f88c02790d5ea256cccaf51aee56fb28e7ee48ce')
     version('0.3.5', sha256='798dd19809ab99267456ebf488e7aa4e3c03f7f307f5e0abde01dc7ba1cf53ce')
     version('0.2.0', sha256='5bce8f228182ecaa51230d00ad8a018de9cf2579703e82244e0931fe31f20016')
 
     depends_on('r@3.2:', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-backports', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r@3.3:', when='@0.3.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-ellipsis@0.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-digest', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-glue', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-rlang@0.4.7:', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-zeallot', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rlang@0.4.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rlang@0.4.7:', when='@0.3.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-zeallot', when='@:0.2.0', type=('build', 'run'))