diff --git a/recipes/r-facets/build.sh b/recipes/r-facets/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# R refuses to build packages that mark themselves as Priority: Recommended
+mv DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION.old
+grep -v '^Priority: ' DESCRIPTION.old > DESCRIPTION
+
+$R CMD INSTALL --build .
+
+# Add more build steps here, if they are necessary.
+
+# See
+# http://docs.continuum.io/conda/build.html
+# for a list of environment variables that are set during the build process.
diff --git a/recipes/r-facets/meta.yaml b/recipes/r-facets/meta.yaml
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+package:
+  name: r-facets
+  version: 0.5.14
+
+source:
+  url: https://github.com/mskcc/facets/archive/v0.5.14.tar.gz
+  sha256: 2f1a888215a11fd8e0868a79daad99c85a0a59929e6d9c42b765f6e3e433902c
+
+build:
+  number: 0
+  rpaths:
+    - lib/R/lib/
+    - lib/
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('fortran') }}
+  host:
+    - r-base
+    - r-pctgcdata
+  run:
+    - r-base
+    - r-pctgcdata
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - $R -e "library('facets')"
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/mskcc/facets
+  license: GPL (>= 2)
+  summary: Cellular Fraction and Copy Numbers from Tumor Sequencing
+  license_family: GPL3
+
+extra:
+  identifiers:
+    - biotools:facets