diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-colorspace/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-colorspace/package.py
index e4e6d31220..725591c3b2 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-colorspace/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-colorspace/package.py
@@ -7,15 +7,29 @@
 
 
 class RColorspace(RPackage):
-    """Carries out mapping between assorted color spaces including RGB, HSV,
-    HLS, CIEXYZ, CIELUV, HCL (polar CIELUV), CIELAB and polar CIELAB.
-    Qualitative, sequential, and diverging color palettes based on HCL colors
-    are provided."""
+    """A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes
+
+    Carries out mapping between assorted color spaces including RGB, HSV, HLS,
+    CIEXYZ, CIELUV, HCL (polar CIELUV), CIELAB, and polar CIELAB. Qualitative,
+    sequential, and diverging color palettes based on HCL colors are provided
+    along with corresponding ggplot2 color scales. Color palette choice is
+    aided by an interactive app (with either a Tcl/Tk or a shiny graphical user
+    interface) and shiny apps with an HCL color picker and a color vision
+    deficiency emulator. Plotting functions for displaying and assessing
+    palettes include color swatches, visualizations of the HCL space, and
+    trajectories in HCL and/or RGB spectrum. Color manipulation functions
+    include: desaturation, lightening/darkening, mixing, and simulation of
+    color vision deficiencies (deutanomaly, protanomaly, tritanomaly). Details
+    can be found on the project web page at
+    <http://colorspace.R-Forge.R-project.org/> and in the accompanying
+    scientific paper: Zeileis et al. (2020, Journal of Statistical Software,
+    <doi:10.18637/jss.v096.i01>)."""
 
     homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=colorspace"
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/colorspace_1.3-2.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/colorspace"
 
+    version('2.0-0', sha256='4e6a53af9918db282cefdc71eaa30f507d4d1d682bcfb74cb0dd68a0b282018e')
     version('1.4-1', sha256='693d713a050f8bfecdb7322739f04b40d99b55aed168803686e43401d5f0d673')
     version('1.4-0', sha256='ce003c5958dd704697959e9dc8a108c8cb568f8d78ece113235732afc5dff556')
     version('1.3-2', sha256='dd9fd2342b650456901d014e7ff6d2e201f8bec0b555be63b1a878d2e1513e34')