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+# Copyright 2013-2019 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 RUrltools(RPackage):
+    """urltools: Vectorised Tools for URL Handling and Parsing"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Ironholds/urltools/"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/urltools_1.7.3.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/urltools"
+
+    version('1.7.3', sha256='6020355c1b16a9e3956674e5dea9ac5c035c8eb3eb6bbdd841a2b5528cafa313')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.10:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-triebeard', type=('build', 'run'))