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+# Copyright 2013-2019 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 REmmli(RPackage):
+    """Fit models of modularity to morphological landmarks. Perform model selection
+       on results. Fit models with a single within-module correlation or with
+       separate within-module correlations fitted to each module."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.r-project.org/package=EMMLi"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/EMMLi_0.0.3.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/EMMLi"
+
+    version('0.0.3', sha256='57c04953200d2253bc90b0035dc590179d1b959768bfa7fdac92b6bcbf9f66ac')