diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-covr/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-covr/package.py
index 0078310445..f6b0c7332f 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-covr/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-covr/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 
 class RCovr(RPackage):
-    """Track and report code coverage for your package and (optionally)
+    """Test Coverage for Packages
+
+    Track and report code coverage for your package and (optionally)
     upload the results to a coverage service like 'Codecov'
     <http://codecov.io> or 'Coveralls' <http://coveralls.io>. Code
     coverage is a measure of the amount of code being exercised by a
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@ class RCovr(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/covr_3.0.1.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/covr"
 
+    version('3.5.1', sha256='a54cfc3623ea56084158ac5d7fe33f216f45191f6dcddab9c9ed4ec1d9d8ac6c')
     version('3.5.0', sha256='cb919912018130164a40803ac573a37dde2186678c058c03c6303d79604979df')
     version('3.3.0', sha256='c0aa0bd7b2dc05effdc2367c59d45294f46858930d1b14efb393b205021fc65a')
     version('3.2.1', sha256='ea90daa48011e4ac4431ae47ee02fad98f54b529fc3900281cbeef7a2edef0a0')