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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 RSpdata(RPackage):
+    """spData: Datasets for Spatial Analysis"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Nowosad/spData"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/spData_0.3.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/spData"
+
+    version('0.3.0', sha256='de24ea659541a6c795cd26a1f6a213e15061af9c97a24cba1c24ce30c6c24c98')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))