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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 RGeonames(RPackage):
+    """geonames: Interface to the "Geonames" Spatial Query Web Service"""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=geonames"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/geonames_0.999.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/geonames"
+
+    version('0.999', sha256='1dd7bbd82d9425d14eb36f8e5bf431feaccfe3b0c4e70bf38f44f13dfc59e17b')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rjson', type=('build', 'run'))