diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d4ac0304c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Maintainer: Pekka Ristola <pekkarr [at] protonmail [dot] com>
+
+_pkgname=paws.common
+_pkgver=0.6.3
+pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
+pkgver=${_pkgver//-/.}
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Paws Low-Level Amazon Web Services API"
+arch=(x86_64)
+url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=${_pkgname}"
+license=(Apache)
+depends=(
+  pandoc
+  r-base64enc
+  r-curl
+  r-digest
+  r-httr
+  r-jsonlite
+  r-rcpp
+  r-xml2
+)
+checkdepends=(
+  r-mockery
+  r-testthat
+)
+optdepends=(
+  r-covr
+  r-crayon
+  r-mockery
+  r-rstudioapi
+  r-testthat
+  r-withr
+)
+source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
+md5sums=('82a698babfc9709563622c16bfb4400f')
+sha256sums=('ae4b1521a0d4a4cc096232a2a1da127e21f9c64bd0374c5825c400afa04bfbc8')
+
+build() {
+  mkdir -p build
+  R CMD INSTALL "$_pkgname" -l build
+}
+
+check() {
+  cd "$_pkgname/tests"
+  R_LIBS="$srcdir/build" NOT_CRAN=true Rscript --vanilla testthat.R
+}
+
+package() {
+  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib/R/library"
+  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership "build/$_pkgname" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/R/library"
+}
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/lilac.py b/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/lilac.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4bd2fb6ea8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/lilac.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from lilaclib import *
+
+import os
+import sys
+sys.path.append(os.path.normpath(f'{__file__}/../../../lilac-extensions'))
+from lilac_r_utils import r_pre_build
+
+def pre_build():
+    r_pre_build(
+        _G,
+        expect_systemrequirements = "pandoc (>= 1.12.3) - http://pandoc.org",
+    )
+
+def post_build():
+    git_pkgbuild_commit()
+    update_aur_repo()
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/lilac.yaml b/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/lilac.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7d65e01d18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-paws.common/lilac.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+build_prefix: extra-x86_64
+maintainers:
+- github: pekkarr
+  email: pekkarr@protonmail.com
+repo_depends:
+- r-base64enc
+- r-curl
+- r-digest
+- r-httr
+- r-jsonlite
+- r-rcpp
+- r-xml2
+repo_makedepends:
+- r-mockery
+- r-testthat
+update_on:
+- source: rpkgs
+  pkgname: paws.common
+  repo: cran
+  md5: true
+- alias: r
diff --git a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
index abfc73241b..cff5dc2dc1 100644
--- a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
+++ b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ license_map = {
     "AGPL-3": "AGPL3",
     "Apache License": "Apache",
     "Apache License (== 2.0)": "Apache",
+    "Apache License (>= 2.0)": "Apache",
     "Apache License 2.0": "Apache",
     "Artistic-2.0": "Artistic2.0",
     "BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE": "BSD",