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+# Copyright 2013-2021 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 RElemstatlearn(RPackage):
+    """ElemStatLearn: Data Sets, Functions and Examples from the Book: "The
+    Elements of Statistical Learning, Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction" by
+    Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman"""
+
+    homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=ElemStatLearn"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ElemStatLearn/ElemStatLearn_2015.6.26.2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ElemStatLearn"
+
+    version('2015.6.26.2', sha256='a0f94a72f6188a0a5c855e3362b6b849bf7fd14efc2d824a8d2581f8bb1bd7fa')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.10.0:', type=('build', 'run'))