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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 RRle(RPackage):
+    """Common Functions for Run-Length Encoded Vectors
+
+    Common 'base' and 'stats' methods for 'rle' objects, aiming to make it
+    possible to treat them transparently as vectors."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=rle"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/rle_0.9.2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rle"
+
+    version('0.9.2', sha256='803cbe310af6e882e27be61d37d660dbe5910ac1ee1eff61a480bcf724a04f69')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.5:', type=('build', 'run'))