diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gplots/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gplots/package.py
index e17c7796bf..63cfedcf00 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gplots/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-gplots/package.py
@@ -9,17 +9,34 @@
 
 
 class RGplots(RPackage):
-    """Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data."""
+    """Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data
+
+    Various R programming tools for plotting data, including: - calculating and
+    plotting locally smoothed summary function as ('bandplot', 'wapply'), -
+    enhanced versions of standard plots ('barplot2', 'boxplot2', 'heatmap.2',
+    'smartlegend'), - manipulating colors ('col2hex', 'colorpanel', 'redgreen',
+    'greenred', 'bluered', 'redblue', 'rich.colors'), - calculating and
+    plotting two-dimensional data summaries ('ci2d', 'hist2d'), - enhanced
+    regression diagnostic plots ('lmplot2', 'residplot'), - formula-enabled
+    interface to 'stats::lowess' function ('lowess'), - displaying textual data
+    in plots ('textplot', 'sinkplot'), - plotting a matrix where each cell
+    contains a dot whose size reflects the relative magnitude of the elements
+    ('balloonplot'), - plotting "Venn" diagrams ('venn'), - displaying
+    Open-Office style plots ('ooplot'), - plotting multiple data on same
+    region, with separate axes ('overplot'), - plotting means and confidence
+    intervals ('plotCI', 'plotmeans'), - spacing points in an x-y plot so they
+    don't overlap ('space')."""
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=gplots"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/gplots_3.0.1.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/gplots"
 
+    version('3.1.1', sha256='f9ae19c2574b6d41adbeccaf7bc66cf56d7b2769004daba7e0038d5fbd821339')
     version('3.0.1.1', sha256='7db103f903a25d174cddcdfc7b946039b61e236c95084b90ad17f1a41da3770c')
     version('3.0.1', sha256='343df84327ac3d03494992e79ee3afc78ba3bdc08af9a305ee3fb0a38745cb0a')
 
     depends_on('r@3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-gtools', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-gdata', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-catools', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-kernsmooth', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-gdata', when='@:3.0.1.1', type=('build', 'run'))