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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 RFftwtools(RPackage):
+    """Provides a wrapper for several 'FFTW' functions. This package provides
+       access to the two-dimensional 'FFT', the multivariate 'FFT', and the
+       one-dimensional real to complex 'FFT' using the 'FFTW3' library. The
+       package includes the functions fftw() and mvfftw() which are designed
+       to mimic the functionality of the R functions fft() and mvfft().
+       The 'FFT' functions have a parameter that allows them to not return
+       the redundant complex conjugate when the input is real data."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/krahim/fftwtools"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/fftwtools_0.9-8.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/fftwtools"
+
+    version('0.9-8', '2d1258fbaf0940b57ed61c8d6cd6694d')
+
+    depends_on('fftw')