diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 27d9886..dd18a6b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,23 +16,22 @@ rdesc(stream, function(err, d) {
 })
 ```
 
-```json
-{ Package: 'sysreqs',
+```js
+{
+  Package: 'sysreqs',
   Title: 'Install SystemRequirements of Packages',
   Version: '1.0.0.9000',
-  Author: 'Gábor Csárdi',
-  Maintainer: 'Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>',
-  Description:
-   'Automatically download and install system requirements of R packages.',
+  Author: 'Gabor Csardi',
+  Maintainer: 'Gabor Csardi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>',
+  Description: 'Automatically download and install system requirements of R packages.',
   License: 'MIT + file LICENSE',
   LazyData: 'true',
   URL: 'https://github.com/r-hub/sysreqs',
   BugReports: 'https://github.com/r-hub/sysreqs/issues',
-  RoxygenNote: '6.1.1',
-  Suggests: [ 'testthat' ],
-  Imports: [ 'debugme', 'desc', 'jsonlite', 'processx', 'utils' ],
-  Encoding: 'UTF-8',
-  Roxygen: 'list(markdown = TRUE)' }
+  RoxygenNote: '5.0.1.9000',
+  Suggests: [ { package: 'testthat' } ],
+  Imports: [ { package: 'debugme' }, { package: 'desc' }, { package: 'utils' } ]
+}
 ```
 
 ### Parse `DESCRIPTION` file
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index dc05bfa..610a4a3 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -63,7 +63,17 @@ function parse_desc_stream(descstream, callback) {
 }
 
 function parse_dep(str) {
-  return str.split(/,[\s]*/).map(normalize_ws);
+  return str.split(/,[\s]*/s).filter(function(str){
+    return str.trim(); //filter out empty strings
+  }).map(function(str){
+    return str.match(/\(.+\)/s) ?
+        {
+            package: normalize_ws(str.replace(/\(.+\)/s, '')),
+            version: normalize_ws(str.replace(/.*\((.+)\)/s, '$1'))
+        } : {
+            package: normalize_ws(str)
+        };
+    });
 }
 
 function parse_remotes(str) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1bdca5f..1d4d0e0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "rdesc-parser",
-  "version": "2.0.4",
+  "version": "3.0.0",
   "description": "Parser for R package DESCRIPTION files.",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
     "parser"
   ],
   "author": "Gabor Csardi",
+  "contributors": [
+    "Jeroen Ooms"
+  ],
   "license": "ISC",
   "bugs": {
     "url": "https://github.com/r-hub/rdesc-parser/issues"
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index c3508a1..8275c7b 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ test.cb('D2', function(t) {
 	     t.is(err, null);
 	     t.is(d.Package, 'roxygen2');
 	     t.is(d.Depends.length, 1);
-	     t.is(d.Depends[0], 'R (>= 3.0.2)');
-	     t.end();
+         t.is(d.Imports.length, 8);
+	     t.deepEqual(d.Depends[0], {package: 'R', version: '>= 3.0.2'});
+         t.deepEqual(d.Imports[0], {package: 'stringr', version: '>= 0.5'});
+         t.deepEqual(d.Imports[1], {package: 'stringi'});
+         t.deepEqual(d.Imports[5], {package: 'Rcpp', version: '>= 0.11.0'});
+         t.deepEqual(d.Suggests[0], {package: 'testthat', version: '>= 0.8.0'});
+         t.end();
 	 });
 });
 
diff --git a/test/D2 b/test/D2
index dbf38e4..ae6f849 100644
--- a/test/D2
+++ b/test/D2
@@ -12,16 +12,18 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("RStudio", role = "cph")
     )
 Depends:
-    R (>= 3.0.2)
+    R (>= 3.0.2),
 Imports:
-    stringr (>= 0.5) ,
-    stringi,
+    stringr 
+      (>=                     
+      0.5)
+    , stringi,
     brew,
     digest,
     methods ,
     Rcpp    (>= 0.11.0),
     commonmark,
-    xml2
+    xml2,
 Suggests:
     testthat (>= 0.8.0),
     knitr,