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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 RTriebeard(RPackage):
+    """triebeard: 'Radix' Trees in 'Rcpp'"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Ironholds/triebeard/"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/triebeard_0.3.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/triebeard"
+
+    version('0.3.0', sha256='bf1dd6209cea1aab24e21a85375ca473ad11c2eff400d65c6202c0fb4ef91ec3')
+
+    depends_on('r-rcpp', type=('build', 'run'))