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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 RStringfish(RPackage):
+    """Alt String Implementation
+
+    Provides an extendable, performant and multithreaded 'alt-string'
+    implementation backed by 'C++' vectors and strings."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/traversc/stringfish"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringfish_0.14.2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/stringfish"
+
+    maintainers = ['dorton21']
+
+    version('0.14.2', sha256='9373cfc715cda1527fd20179435977b8e59e19d8c5ef82a31e519f93fb624ced')
+
+    depends_on('gmake', type='build')
+    depends_on('r@3.5.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp@0.12.18.3:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcppparallel', type=('build', 'run'))