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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
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RDelayedarray(RPackage):
+    """Wrapping an array-like object (typically an on-disk object) in a
+       DelayedArray object allows one to perform common array operations on it
+       without loading the object in memory. In order to reduce memory usage
+       and optimize performance, operations on the object are either delayed
+       or executed using a block processing mechanism. Note that this also
+       works on in-memory array-like objects like DataFrame objects (typically
+       with Rle columns), Matrix objects, and ordinary arrays and data frames.
+       Wrapping an array-like object (typically an on-disk object) in a
+       DelayedArray object allows one to perform common array operations on it
+       without loading the object in memory. In order to reduce memory usage
+       and optimize performance, operations on the object are either delayed
+       or executed using a block processing mechanism. Note that this also
+       works on in-memory array-like objects like DataFrame objects (typically
+       with Rle columns), Matrix objects, and ordinary arrays and data
+       frames."""
+
+    homepage = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/DelayedArray/"
+    url      = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.5/bioc/src/contrib/DelayedArray_0.2.7.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.2.7', 'a03b9a92745b7bcac4c0ed44ed6b2272')
+
+    depends_on('r-biocgenerics', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-s4vectors', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-iranges', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-matrixstats', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r@3.4.0:3.4.9', when='@0.2.7')