diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-graphlayouts/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-graphlayouts/package.py
index 8e42bfc6be..378eccdff0 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-graphlayouts/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-graphlayouts/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 
 class RGraphlayouts(RPackage):
-    """graphlayouts: Additional Layout Algorithms for Network Visualizations.
+    """Additional Layout Algorithms for Network Visualizations.
 
     Several new layout algorithms to visualize networks are provided which are
     not part of 'igraph'. Most are based on the concept of stress majorization
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ class RGraphlayouts(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/graphlayouts_0.5.0.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/graphlayouts"
 
+    version('0.7.1', sha256='380f8ccb0b08735694e83f661fd56a0d592a78448ae91b89c290ba8582d66717')
     version('0.5.0', sha256='83f61ce07580c5a64c7044c12b20d98ccf138c7e78ff12855cdfc206e1fab10d')
 
     depends_on('r@3.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))