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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2017, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RGlue(RPackage):
+    """An implementation of interpreted string literals, inspired by Python's
+       Literal String Interpolation <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/>
+       and Docstrings <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/> and Julia's
+       Triple-Quoted String Literals <https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/
+       manual/strings/#triple-quoted-string-literals>."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/tidyverse/glue"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/glue_1.2.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/glue"
+
+    version('1.2.0', '77d06b6d86abc882fa1c0599e457c5e2')