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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 RCaroline(RPackage):
+    """caroline: A Collection of Database, Data Structure, Visualization,
+       andUtility Functions for R"""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=caroline"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/caroline_0.7.6.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/caroline"
+
+    version('0.7.6', sha256='e7ba948f7d87f091b498dd0eec2ca4fdad7af4e2bbb67e0945c2f0d3f2eadda9')
+
+    depends_on('r@1.8.0:', type=('build', 'run'))