diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-aer/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-aer/package.py
index 6ec1063c52f..2e0c3f6537e 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-aer/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-aer/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 
 class RAer(RPackage):
-    """Functions, data sets, examples, demos, and vignettes
+    """Applied Econometrics with R
+
+    Functions, data sets, examples, demos, and vignettes
     for the book Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis (2008),
     Applied Econometrics with R, Springer-Verlag, New York.
     ISBN 978-0-387-77316-2."""
@@ -16,6 +18,7 @@ class RAer(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/AER_1.2-5.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/AER"
 
+    version('1.2-9', sha256='3b79390b14766419fc1e8912689bc462d4beb01aff9dad26d628aed69d04540d')
     version('1.2-7', sha256='3aee5c606313710c2dca6c1e9b2c20a145aa33f2a3ecc5cfcec66c8e91838a93')
     version('1.2-6', sha256='653c3a2d253819e0ce8c2cf12cff2ab222bf3d19dbf382b7c4b4c3d762469474')
     version('1.2-5', sha256='ef0cf14ff9d3de2b97e5855243426cc918808eb1011f0e2253b3b00043927a62')