diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leaps/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leaps/package.py
index 73ee67a911..e42a226656 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leaps/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leaps/package.py
@@ -7,10 +7,14 @@
 
 
 class RLeaps(RPackage):
-    """leaps: Regression Subset Selection"""
+    """Regression Subset Selection
+
+    Regression subset selection, including exhaustive search.
+    """
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=leaps"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/leaps_3.0.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/leaps"
 
+    version('3.1', sha256='3d7c3a102ce68433ecf167ece96a7ebb4207729e4defd0ac8fc00e7003f5c3b6')
     version('3.0', sha256='55a879cdad5a4c9bc3b5697dd4d364b3a094a49d8facb6692f5ce6af82adf285')