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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 RExactextractr(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Provides a replacement for the 'extract' function from the 'raster'
+       package that is suitable for extracting raster values using 'sf'
+       polygons.
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=exactextractr"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/exactextractr_0.3.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/exactextractr"
+
+    version('0.3.0', sha256='c7fb38b38b9dc8b3ca5b8f1f84f4ba3256efd331f2b4636b496d42689ffc3fb0')
+    version('0.2.1', sha256='d0b998c77c3fd9265a600a0e08e9bf32a2490a06c19df0d0c0dea4b5c9ab5773')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-raster', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-sf', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp@0.12.12:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('geos@3.5:', type=('build', 'run', 'link'))