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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 RBibtex(RPackage):
+    """bibtex: Bibtex Parser
+
+       Utility to parse a bibtex file."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=bibtex"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/bibtex_0.4.2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/bibtex/"
+
+    version('0.4.2', sha256='1f06ab3660c940405230ad16ff6e4ba38d4418a59cd9b16d78a4349f8b488372')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.0.2:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-stringr', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-testthat', type=('build', 'run'))