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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 RV8(RPackage):
+    """V8: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jeroen/v8"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/V8_3.4.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/V8"
+
+    version('3.4.0', sha256='f5c8a2a03cc1be9f504f47711a0fcd1b962745139c9fb2a10fbd79c4ae103fbd')
+
+    depends_on('r-curl@1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-jsonlite@1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp@0.12.12:', type=('build', 'run'))