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+# Copyright 2013-2024 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)
+
+import os
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class RAsreml(RPackage):
+    """ASReml-R is a statistical package that fits linear mixed models using
+    Residual Maximum Likelihood (REML) in the R environment."""
+
+    homepage = "https://vsni.co.uk/software/asreml-r"
+
+    manual_download = True
+    license_required = True
+    license_vars = ["vsni_LICENSE"]
+    license_files = ["vsni.lic"]
+
+    maintainers("snehring")
+
+    license("UNKNOWN", checked_by="snehring")
+
+    version(
+        "4.2.0.302_R42", sha256="93196b68a987fd0a8d26fa7463cab60bd35c7be750c4832332945d71907425cd"
+    )
+    version(
+        "4.2.0.302_R43", sha256="0a685521c80e3263ebb852886d3e1bd31213bd83507e7fffca34261ae18523f9"
+    )
+
+    depends_on("r@4.2.0:4.2", type=("build", "run"), when="@4.2.0.302_R42")
+    depends_on("r@4.3.0:4.3", type=("build", "run"), when="@4.2.0.302_R43")
+    depends_on("r-data-table", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("r-ggplot2", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("r-jsonlite", type=("build", "run"))
+
+    def url_for_version(self, version):
+        return f"file://{os.getcwd()}//asreml_{version}_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
+
+    def setup_run_environment(self, env):
+        env.set("vsni_LICENSE", join_path(self.prefix, "vsni.lic"))