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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 RCircstat(RPackage):
+    """Circular Statistics, from "Topics in Circular Statistics" (2001)
+
+    Circular Statistics, from "Topics in Circular Statistics" (2001) S.
+    Rao Jammalamadaka and A. SenGupta, World Scientific."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/CircStats/index.html"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/CircStats_0.2-6.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/CircStats"
+
+    maintainers = ['dorton21']
+
+    version('0.2-6', sha256='8efed93b75b314577341effea214e3dd6e0a515cfe1212eb051047a1f3276f1d')
+
+    depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-boot', type=('build', 'run'))