diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-earth/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-earth/package.py
index 80d95fb752..69e0c81ae0 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-earth/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-earth/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 
 class REarth(RPackage):
-    """earth: Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines.
+    """Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines.
 
     Build regression models using the techniques in Friedman's papers
     "Fast MARS" and "Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines"
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ class REarth(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/earth_5.1.2.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/earth"
 
+    version('5.3.0', sha256='05ace806271a74b3ddf8718a93237fe2a8550a8659ebd87f8079c0bda5e02437')
     version('5.1.2', sha256='326f98e8c29365ca3cd5584cf2bd6529358f5ef81664cbd494162f92b6c3488d')
 
     depends_on('r@3.4.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-formula@1.2-3:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-plotmo@3.5.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-plotmo@3.6.0:', when='@5.3.0', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-teachingdemos@2.10:', type=('build', 'run'))