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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 RIntervals(RPackage):
+    """intervals: Tools for Working with Points and Intervals"""
+
+    homepage = "http://github.com/edzer/intervals"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/intervals_0.15.1.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/intervals"
+
+    version('0.15.1', sha256='9a8b3854300f2055e1492c71932cc808b02feac8c4d3dbf6cba1c7dbd09f4ae4')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.9.0:', type=('build', 'run'))