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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RConstruct(RPackage):
+    """conStruct: Models Spatially Continuous and Discrete Population
+       GeneticStructure"""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=conStruct"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/conStruct_1.0.3.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/conStruct"
+
+    version('1.0.3', sha256='b449c133a944ad05a28f84f312ed4ccbc1574c4659aa09c678618d2ae9008310')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.4.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-bh@1.66.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-caroline', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-doparallel', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-foreach', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-gtools', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp@0.12.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcppeigen@0.3.3.3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rstan@2.18.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rstantools@1.5.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-stanheaders@2.18.0:', type=('build', 'run'))