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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 RPkgload(RPackage):
+    """pkgload: Simulate Package Installation and Attach"""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgload"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/pkgload_1.0.2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/pkgload/"
+
+    version('1.0.2', sha256='3186564e690fb05eabe76e1ac0bfd4312562c3ac8794b29f8850399515dcf27c')
+
+    depends_on('r-desc', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-pkgbuild', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rlang', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rprojroot', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rstudioapi', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-withr', type=('build', 'run'))