diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lambda-r/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lambda-r/package.py
index e21619cf6e..0cd4c46a4c 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lambda-r/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lambda-r/package.py
@@ -7,14 +7,17 @@
 
 
 class RLambdaR(RPackage):
-    """A language extension to efficiently write functional programs in R.
-       Syntax extensions include multi-part function definitions, pattern
-       matching, guard statements, built-in (optional) type safety."""
+    """Modeling Data with Functional Programming
+
+    A language extension to efficiently write functional programs in R.  Syntax
+    extensions include multi-part function definitions, pattern matching, guard
+    statements, built-in (optional) type safety."""
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=lambda.r"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/lambda.r_1.2.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/lambda.r"
 
+    version('1.2.4', sha256='d252fee39065326c6d9f45ad798076522cec05e73b8905c1b30f95a61f7801d6')
     version('1.2.3', sha256='0cd8e37ba1a0960888016a85d492da51a57df54bd65ff920b08c79a3bfbe8631')
     version('1.2', sha256='7dc4188ce1d4a6b026a1b128719ff60234ae1e3ffa583941bbcd8473ad18146f')