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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 RCrul(RPackage):
+    """crul: HTTP Client"""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=crul"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/crul_0.7.4.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/crul"
+
+    version('0.7.4', sha256='c963dd666ae3fc89b661ce19fce2fa19a16fc3825e1502105cae98ceb92c6014')
+
+    depends_on('r-curl@3.3:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-httpcode@0.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-mime', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-r6@2.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-urltools@1.6.0:', type=('build', 'run'))