diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-archive/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-archive/PKGBUILD
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+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-archive/PKGBUILD
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+# Maintainer: Pekka Ristola <pekkarr [at] protonmail [dot] com>
+
+_pkgname=archive
+_pkgver=1.1.6
+pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
+pkgver=${_pkgver//-/.}
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Multi-Format Archive and Compression Support"
+arch=(x86_64)
+url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=${_pkgname}"
+license=(MIT)
+depends=(
+  libarchive
+  r-cli
+  r-glue
+  r-rlang
+  r-tibble
+)
+makedepends=(
+  r-cpp11
+)
+checkdepends=(
+  r-testthat
+)
+optdepends=(
+  r-covr
+  r-testthat
+)
+source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz")
+md5sums=('ab6c75b3fb60317b4515d223b3acd57c')
+sha256sums=('ece03367ad10e35b3c4d4a7fa9b01e5a0e68604c43461f11d6e9ef25fecc504b')
+
+build() {
+  mkdir -p build
+  R CMD INSTALL "$_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" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/R/library"
+
+  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
+  ln -s "/usr/lib/R/library/$_pkgname/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
+}
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-archive/lilac.py b/BioArchLinux/r-archive/lilac.py
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+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-archive/lilac.py
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+#!/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 = "libarchive: libarchive-dev (deb), libarchive-devel (rpm), libarchive (homebrew), libarchive_dev (csw)",
+    )
+
+def post_build():
+    git_pkgbuild_commit()
+    update_aur_repo()
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-archive/lilac.yaml b/BioArchLinux/r-archive/lilac.yaml
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+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-archive/lilac.yaml
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+build_prefix: extra-x86_64
+maintainers:
+- github: pekkarr
+  email: pekkarr@protonmail.com
+repo_depends:
+- r-cli
+- r-glue
+- r-rlang
+- r-tibble
+repo_makedepends:
+- r-cpp11
+- r-testthat
+update_on:
+- source: rpkgs
+  pkgname: archive
+  repo: cran
+  md5: true
+- alias: r
+- source: alpm
+  alpm: libarchive
+  repo: core
+  provided: libarchive.so
+  strip_release: true