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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2017, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RDbplyr(RPackage):
+    """A 'dplyr' back end for databases that allows you to work with remote
+       database tables as if they are in-memory data frames. Basic features
+       works with any database that has a 'DBI' back end; more advanced
+       features require 'SQL' translation to be provided by the package
+       author."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/tidyverse/dbplyr"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/dbplyr_1.1.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dbplyr"
+
+    version('1.1.0', 'a66a08d1046e3e44bfe17e65ce72a1d0')
+
+    depends_on('r-assertthat', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-dbi', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-dplyr', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-glue', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-purrr', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rlang', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-tibble', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-r6', type=('build', 'run'))