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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 RAnytime(RPackage):
+    """Anything to 'POSIXct' or 'Date' Converter
+
+    Convert input in any one of character, integer, numeric,
+    factor, or ordered type into 'POSIXct' (or 'Date') objects,
+    using one of a number of predefined formats, and relying on
+    Boost facilities for date and time parsing."""
+
+    homepage = "http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/anytime.html"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/anytime_0.3.9.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/anytime"
+
+    version('0.3.9', sha256='1096c15249ac70997a8a41c37eeb2a6d38530621abeae05d3dcd96a8acc7574a')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp@0.12.9:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-bh', type=('build', 'run'))