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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 RDiffusionmap(RPackage):
+    """Allows to display a progress bar in the R console for long running
+    computations taking place in c++ code, and support for interrupting those
+    computations even in multithreaded code, typically using OpenMP."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/diffusionMap/index.html"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/diffusionMap_1.1-0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Archive/diffusionMap"
+
+    version('1.1-0', 'cc7d728087ba08d9299ae3a64a8d8919')
+    version('1.0-0', 'bca462e6efe45c5eaa48d38621f0bd6f')
+    version('0.0-2', 'b599f47ebf30127e34ce2219dc3e43ae')
+    version('0.0-1', '20c2cc2fffb5237d5c0216207016c2a1')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.4.0:3.4.9')
+    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-scatterplot3d', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-igraph', type=('build', 'run'))