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+# Copyright 2013-2020 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 RGsalib(RPackage):
+    """This package contains utility functions used by the Genome Analysis
+    Toolkit (GATK) to load tables and plot data. The GATK is a toolkit for
+    variant discovery in high-throughput sequencing data."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=gsalib"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/gsalib_2.1.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/gsalib"
+
+    version('2.1', sha256='e1b23b986c18b89a94c58d9db45e552d1bce484300461803740dacdf7c937fcc')