diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-generics/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-generics/package.py
index 0ba47701d1..6da6887c8a 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-generics/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-generics/package.py
@@ -7,13 +7,16 @@
 
 
 class RGenerics(RPackage):
-    """In order to reduce potential package dependencies and conflicts,
+    """Common S3 Generics not Provided by Base R Methods Related to Model Fitting
+
+    In order to reduce potential package dependencies and conflicts,
     generics provides a number of commonly used S3 generics."""
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/r-lib/generics"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/generics_0.0.2.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/generics"
 
+    version('0.1.0', sha256='ab71d1bdbb66c782364c61cede3c1186d6a94c03635f9af70d926e2c1ac88763')
     version('0.0.2', sha256='71b3d1b719ce89e71dd396ac8bc6aa5f1cd99bbbf03faff61dfbbee32fec6176')
 
     depends_on('r@3.1:', type=('build', 'run'))