diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ks/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ks/package.py
index 37b09c8f13..07a4324975 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ks/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ks/package.py
@@ -7,12 +7,18 @@
 
 
 class RKs(RPackage):
-    """Kernel smoothers for univariate and multivariate data."""
+    """Kernel Smoothing
+
+    Kernel smoothers for univariate and multivariate data, including densities,
+    density derivatives, cumulative distributions, clustering, classification,
+    density ridges, significant modal regions, and two-sample hypothesis tests.
+    Chacon & Duong (2018) <doi:10.1201/9780429485572>."""
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=ks"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/ks_1.11.2.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ks"
 
+    version('1.11.7', sha256='6a6d9c2366e85a4c6af39b798f3798d20a42615ddfcebcedf6cf56087cdfd2b8')
     version('1.11.5', sha256='4f65565376391b8a6dcce76168ef628fd4859dba8496910cbdd54e4f88e8d51b')
     version('1.11.4', sha256='0beffaf8694819fba8c93af07a8782674a15fe00a04ad1d94d31238d0a41b134')
     version('1.11.2', sha256='9dfd485096e1e67abc7dfcb7b76a83de110dd15bcfeffe5c899605b3a5592961')
@@ -20,9 +26,9 @@ class RKs(RPackage):
     depends_on('r@2.10:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-fnn@1.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-kernlab', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-mclust', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-multicool', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-mvtnorm@1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-kernsmooth@2.22:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-mclust', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-mgcv', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-multicool', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-mvtnorm@1.0-0:', type=('build', 'run'))