diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-bio3d/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-bio3d/package.py
index e366d005dd..e62bcd2733 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-bio3d/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-bio3d/package.py
@@ -7,12 +7,26 @@
 
 
 class RBio3d(RPackage):
-    """bio3d: Biological Structure Analysis"""
+    """Biological Structure Analysis
+
+    Utilities to process, organize and explore protein structure, sequence and
+    dynamics data. Features include the ability to read and write structure,
+    sequence and dynamic trajectory data, perform sequence and structure
+    database searches, data summaries, atom selection, alignment,
+    superposition, rigid core identification, clustering, torsion analysis,
+    distance matrix analysis, structure and sequence conservation analysis,
+    normal mode analysis, principal component analysis of heterogeneous
+    structure data, and correlation network analysis from normal mode and
+    molecular dynamics data. In addition, various utility functions are
+    provided to enable the statistical and graphical power of the R environment
+    to work with biological sequence and structural data. Please refer to the
+    URLs below for more information."""
 
     homepage = "http://thegrantlab.org/bio3d/"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/bio3d_2.3-4.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/bio3d"
 
+    version('2.4-1', sha256='679fbd87fe9fb82a65427d281d3b68906509e411270cd87d2deb95d404333c1f')
     version('2.3-4', sha256='f9b39ab242cbedafcd98c1732cb1f5c0dd9ef66e28be39695e3420dd93e2bafe')
 
     depends_on('r@3.1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))