diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-amap/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-amap/package.py
index 95e0937f94..80eef5e198 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-amap/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-amap/package.py
@@ -7,13 +7,16 @@
 
 
 class RAmap(RPackage):
-    """Tools for Clustering and Principal Component Analysis
-       (With robust methods, and parallelized functions)."""
+    """Another Multidimensional Analysis Package
+
+    Tools for Clustering and Principal Component Analysis (With robust methods,
+    and parallelized functions)."""
 
     homepage = "http://mulcyber.toulouse.inra.fr/projects/amap/"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/amap_0.8-16.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/amap/"
 
+    version('0.8-18', sha256='7afbbdd681a201121374821b733c9000ca1046a2353ee386507604c2c759ec7e')
     version('0.8-17', sha256='6b8473d1d35a9cbc611661882c8f681162e8f913f911ccd51629200ae72289c6')
     version('0.8-16', sha256='d3775ad7f660581f7d2f070e426be95ae0d6743622943e6f5491988e5217d4e2')