diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rentrez/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rentrez/package.py
index a92c9d9f49b..8c5a348df82 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rentrez/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rentrez/package.py
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
 class RRentrez(RPackage):
     """'Entrez' in R.
 
-    Provides an R interface to the NCBI's 'EUtils' API, 
-    allowing users to search databases like 'GenBank' 
-    <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/> and 'PubMed' 
-    <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>, process the 
+    Provides an R interface to the NCBI's 'EUtils' API,
+    allowing users to search databases like 'GenBank'
+    <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/> and 'PubMed'
+    <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>, process the
     results of those searches and pull data into their R sessions."""
 
     cran = "rrentrez"