diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-hmisc/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-hmisc/package.py
index ef05223352..6327f9207a 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-hmisc/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-hmisc/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 
 class RHmisc(RPackage):
-    """Contains many functions useful for data analysis, high-level
+    """Harrell Miscellaneous
+
+    Contains many functions useful for data analysis, high-level
     graphics, utility operations, functions for computing sample size
     and power, importing and annotating datasets, imputing missing
     values, advanced table making, variable clustering, character
@@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ class RHmisc(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Hmisc_4.1-1.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Hmisc"
 
+    version('4.4-2', sha256='490ac64dd8558868e7c6fdd9523af102e17ea536c450d62c48b04155279bfbc8')
     version('4.4-0', sha256='f16ecf4c5ee2202d51f426282a54f8000ffa8b9747c3e910205f34f878556ec7')
     version('4.2-0', sha256='9e9614673288dd00295f250fa0bf96fc9e9fed692c69bf97691081c1a01411d9')
     version('4.1-1', sha256='991db21cdf73ffbf5b0239a4876b2e76fd243ea33528afd88dc968792f281498')
@@ -28,15 +31,15 @@ class RHmisc(RPackage):
     depends_on('r-formula', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-ggplot2@2.2:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-latticeextra', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-acepack', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-gridextra', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-data-table', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-htmltools', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-base64enc', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-htmltable@1.11.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-viridis', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-cluster', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-rpart', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-nnet', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-foreign', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-gtable', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-gridextra', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-data-table', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-htmltable@1.11.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-viridis', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-htmltools', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-base64enc', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-acepack', when='@:4.4-0', type=('build', 'run'))