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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 RPixmap(RPackage):
+    """Bitmap Images ("Pixel Maps")
+
+    Functions for import, export, plotting and other manipulations of bitmapped
+    images."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cloud.r-project.org/package=pixmap"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/pixmap_0.4-11.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/pixmap"
+
+    version('0.4-11', sha256='6fa010749a59cdf56aad9f81271473b7d55697036203f2cd5d81372bcded7412')