diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c6f30b90a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# system requirements: GNU make
+# Maintainer: sukanka <su975853527@gmail.com>
+
+_pkgname=metaBMA
+_pkgver=0.6.7
+pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
+pkgver=${_pkgver//[:-]/.}
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc='Bayesian Model Averaging for Random and Fixed Effects Meta-Analysis'
+arch=('x86_64')
+url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=${_pkgname}"
+license=('GPL')
+depends=(
+  r
+  r-bh
+  r-bridgesampling
+  r-coda
+  r-laplacesdemon
+  r-logspline
+  r-mvtnorm
+  r-rcpp
+  r-rcppeigen
+  r-rcppparallel
+  r-rstan
+  r-rstantools
+  r-stanheaders
+)
+optdepends=(
+  r-knitr
+  r-rmarkdown
+  r-spelling
+  r-testthat
+)
+makedepends=('make')
+source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
+sha256sums=('330bccb4b2297bc3a8b7291197c5e978b90b002907f762ede40f2d3e383367da')
+
+build() {
+  # restrict the usage of memory and cpu, 1 threads usually consumes 2 GiB memory.
+  export MAKE="make -j5" 
+  R CMD INSTALL ${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz -l "${srcdir}"
+}
+
+package() {
+  install -dm0755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/R/library"
+  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership "${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/R/library"
+}
+# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/lilac.py b/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/lilac.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..620556bc87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/lilac.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from lilaclib import *
+
+def pre_build():
+    for line in edit_file('PKGBUILD'):
+        if line.startswith('_pkgver='):
+            line = f'_pkgver={_G.newver}'
+        print(line)
+    update_pkgver_and_pkgrel(_G.newver.replace(':', '.').replace('-', '.'))
+
+def post_build():
+    git_pkgbuild_commit()
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/lilac.yaml b/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/lilac.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5fdea5e191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-metabma/lilac.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+build_prefix: extra-x86_64
+maintainers:
+  - github: sukanka
+repo_depends:
+  - r-bh
+  - r-bridgesampling
+  - r-coda
+  - r-laplacesdemon
+  - r-logspline
+  - r-mvtnorm
+  - r-rcpp
+  - r-rcppeigen
+  - r-rcppparallel
+  - r-rstan
+  - r-rstantools
+  - r-stanheaders
+update_on:
+  - regex: metaBMA_([\d._-]+).tar.gz
+    source: regex
+    url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=metaBMA
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-rstanarm/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-rstanarm/PKGBUILD
index 9861ce33a2..46fe828f1e 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-rstanarm/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-rstanarm/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 _pkgname=rstanarm
 _pkgver=2.21.3
 pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
-pkgver=2.21.3
+pkgver=${_pkgver//[:-]/.}
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Bayesian Applied Regression Modeling via Stan'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
 sha256sums=('e9f2d3761b8e4f14a6690beb633b08633cba7269ac8b969aedaa12844d1a32a7')
 
 build() {
+  # restrict the usage of memory and cpu, 1 threads usually consumes 2 GiB memory.
+  export MAKE="make -j5" 
   R CMD INSTALL ${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz -l "${srcdir}"
 }