diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leiden/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leiden/package.py
index 7ca6532b046..48012c4a088 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leiden/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leiden/package.py
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 
 class RLeiden(RPackage):
-    """Implements the 'Python leidenalg' module to be called in R. Enables
+    """R Implementation of Leiden Clustering Algorithm
+
+    Implements the 'Python leidenalg' module to be called in R. Enables
     clustering using the leiden algorithm for partition a graph into
     communities. See the 'Python' repository for more details:
         <https://github.com/vtraag/leidenalg> Traag et al (2018) From Louvain
@@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ class RLeiden(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/leiden_0.3.1.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/leiden"
 
+    version('0.3.6', sha256='a7096e38c4010b1f0baf6a7e1139362520b44c0e548b0b79584cb827172822cc')
     version('0.3.1', sha256='17fa1e49667fdd30ef5166506181c8514ae406f68f0878a026ee111bff11f8a5')
 
     depends_on('r-reticulate', type=('build', 'run'))