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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/llnl/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
+##############################################################################
+#
+# This is a template package file for Spack.  We've put "FIXME"
+# next to all the things you'll want to change. Once you've handled
+# them, you can save this file and test your package like this:
+#
+#     spack install r-rcurl
+#
+# You can edit this file again by typing:
+#
+#     spack edit r-rcurl
+#
+# See the Spack documentation for more information on packaging.
+# If you submit this package back to Spack as a pull request,
+# please first remove this boilerplate and all FIXME comments.
+#
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RRcurl(RPackage):
+    """A wrapper for 'libcurl' <http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/> Provides
+       functions to allow one to compose general HTTP requests and provides
+       convenient functions to fetch URIs, get & post forms, etc. and process
+       the results returned by the Web server. This provides a great deal of
+       control over the HTTP/FTP/... connection and the form of the request
+       while providing a higher-level interface than is available just using
+       R socket connections. Additionally, the underlying implementation is
+       robust and extensive, supporting FTP/FTPS/TFTP (uploads and downloads),
+       SSL/HTTPS, telnet, dict, ldap, and also supports cookies, redirects,
+       authentication, etc."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/RCurl/index.html"
+    url      = "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RCurl_1.95-4.8.tar.gz"
+    list_url = homepage
+
+    version('1.95-4.8', '9c8aaff986eb2792c89dd3ae54d21580')
+
+    depends_on('r-bitops', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('curl')