diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-clipr/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-clipr/package.py
index 4355e8e09a..e97fd95623 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-clipr/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-clipr/package.py
@@ -7,13 +7,16 @@
 
 
 class RClipr(RPackage):
-    """Simple utility functions to read from and write to the Windows, OS X,
-       and X11 clipboards."""
+    """Read and Write from the System Clipboard
+
+    Simple utility functions to read from and write to the Windows, OS X, and
+    X11 clipboards."""
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/mdlincoln/clipr"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/clipr_0.4.0.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/clipr"
 
+    version('0.7.1', sha256='ffad477b07847e3b68f7e4406bbd323025a8dae7e3c768943d4d307ee3248afb')
     version('0.7.0', sha256='03a4e4b72ec63bd08b53fe62673ffc19a004cc846957a335be2b30d046b8c2e2')
     version('0.5.0', sha256='fd303f8b7f29badcdf490bb2d579acdfc4f4e1aa9c90ac77ab9d05ce3d053dbf')
     version('0.4.0', sha256='44a2f1ab4fde53e4fe81cf5800aa6ad45b72b5da93d6fe4d3661d7397220e8af')