diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-common/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-common/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e6e02e6b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-common/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Maintainer: Pekka Ristola <pekkarr [at] protonmail [dot] com>
+
+_pkgname=common
+_pkgver=1.0.5
+pkgname=r-${_pkgname,,}
+pkgver=${_pkgver//-/.}
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Solutions for Common Problems in Base R"
+arch=(any)
+url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=${_pkgname}"
+license=(custom:CC0)
+depends=(
+  r-this.path
+)
+checkdepends=(
+  r-testthat
+)
+optdepends=(
+  r-glue
+  r-knitr
+  r-rmarkdown
+  r-testthat
+)
+source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        "$pkgname-CC0.txt::https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt")
+md5sums=('93fd171bfdba50b123433227761d7fd1'
+         '65d3616852dbf7b1a6d4b53b00626032')
+sha256sums=('8fc7025c15b5f26d0509e7c9f444030ea717318a0d7d913b8777fe7af3bab21b'
+            'a2010f343487d3f7618affe54f789f5487602331c0a8d03f49e9a7c547cf0499')
+
+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 -Dm644 "$pkgname-CC0.txt" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
+}
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-common/lilac.py b/BioArchLinux/r-common/lilac.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b5cdb057c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-common/lilac.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/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)
+
+def post_build():
+    git_pkgbuild_commit()
+    update_aur_repo()
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-common/lilac.yaml b/BioArchLinux/r-common/lilac.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1870831b5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-common/lilac.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+build_prefix: extra-x86_64
+maintainers:
+- github: pekkarr
+  email: pekkarr@protonmail.com
+repo_depends:
+- r-this.path
+repo_makedepends:
+- r-testthat
+update_on:
+- source: rpkgs
+  pkgname: common
+  repo: cran
+  md5: true
+- alias: r
diff --git a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
index 626ca15176..594d6a3f20 100644
--- a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
+++ b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ license_map = {
     "BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE": "BSD",
     "BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE": "BSD",
     "BSL-1.0": "Boost",
+    "CC0": "custom:CC0",
     "EPL": "EPL",
     "GPL": "GPL",
     "GPL (>= 2)": "GPL",