diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-energy/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-energy/package.py
index a0178253a2..dd354e1c56 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-energy/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-energy/package.py
@@ -7,12 +7,23 @@
 
 
 class REnergy(RPackage):
-    """E-Statistics: Multivariate Inference via the Energy of Data"""
+    """Statistics: Multivariate Inference via the Energy of Data
+
+    E-statistics (energy) tests and statistics for multivariate and univariate
+    inference, including distance correlation, one-sample, two-sample, and
+    multi-sample tests for comparing multivariate distributions, are
+    implemented. Measuring and testing multivariate independence based on
+    distance correlation, partial distance correlation, multivariate
+    goodness-of-fit tests, k-groups and hierarchical clustering based on energy
+    distance, testing for multivariate normality, distance components (disco)
+    for non-parametric  analysis of structured data, and other energy
+    statistics/methods are implemented."""
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=energy"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/energy_1.7-5.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/energy"
 
+    version('1.7-7', sha256='67b88fb33ee6e7bec2e4fe356a4efd36f70c3cf9b0ebe2f6d9da9ec96de9968f')
     version('1.7-6', sha256='900edbb28e1f1bccd78580828470628cf75eb6333b63e1a58e4da7fc5c5fa89a')
     version('1.7-5', sha256='24c2cf080939f8f56cd9cda06d2dfc30d0389cd3ec7250af4f9a09a4c06b6996')