diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-car/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-car/package.py
index 56c87c27a6d..9f99a4fb87d 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-car/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-car/package.py
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ class RCar(RPackage):
     version('2.1-4', 'a66c307e8ccf0c336ed197c0f1799565')
     version('2.1-2', '0f78ad74ef7130126d319acec23951a0')
 
-    depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-mgcv', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-nnet', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-mgcv', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-nnet', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-pbkrtest', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-quantreg', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-class/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-class/package.py
index de81e7588e0..be1e3c87776 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-class/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-class/package.py
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ class RClass(RPackage):
 
     version('7.3-14', '6a21dd206fe4ea29c55faeb65fb2b71e')
 
-    depends_on('r-mass', type=('build','run'))
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build','run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-dendextend/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-dendextend/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3bde46b6f01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-dendextend/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RDendextend(RPackage):
+    """dendextend: Extending 'Dendrogram' Functionality in R"""
+
+    homepage = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dendextend"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/dendextend_1.5.2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dendextend"
+
+    version('1.5.2', '1134869d94005727c63cf3037e2f1bbf')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.0.0:')
+    depends_on('r-magrittr@1.0.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ggplot2', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-fpc', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-whisker', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-viridis', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-diptest/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-diptest/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f9ce2dd7946
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-diptest/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RDiptest(RPackage):
+    """diptest: Hartigan's Dip Test Statistic for Unimodality - Corrected"""
+
+    homepage = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=diptest"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/diptest_0.75-7.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/diptest"
+
+    version('0.75-7', '1a4a958fda763f7c99cb485dbe5954ab')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-e1071/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-e1071/package.py
index 4d79fcccd72..f0326c4b2dc 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-e1071/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-e1071/package.py
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ class RE1071(RPackage):
 
     version('1.6-7', 'd109a7e3dd0c905d420e327a9a921f5a')
 
-    depends_on('r-class', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-class', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-factoextra/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-factoextra/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..44b39e73268
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-factoextra/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RFactoextra(RPackage):
+    """factoextra: Extract and Visualize the Results of Multivariate Data
+    Analyses"""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.sthda.com/english/rpkgs/factoextra"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/factoextra_1.0.4.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/factoextra"
+
+    version('1.0.4', 'aa4c81ca610f17fdee0c9f3379e35429')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.1.0:')
+    depends_on('r-ggplot2@2.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-abind', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-cluster', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-dendextend', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-factominer', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ggpubr', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-reshape2', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ggrepel', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-tidyr', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-factominer/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-factominer/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..909e6871bf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-factominer/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RFactominer(RPackage):
+    """FactoMineR: Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining"""
+
+    homepage = "http://factominer.free.fr"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/FactoMineR_1.35.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/FactoMineR"
+
+    version('1.35', 'bef076181ce942016114dd7a6f5c2348')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.3.0:')
+    depends_on('r-car', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-cluster', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ellipse', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-flashclust', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-leaps', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-scatterplot3d', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-knitr', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-flashclust/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-flashclust/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e8ea8c76e4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-flashclust/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RFlashclust(RPackage):
+    """flashClust: Implementation of optimal hierarchical clustering"""
+
+    homepage = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=flashClust"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/flashClust_1.01-2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/flashClust"
+
+    version('1.01-2', '23409aeeef98bf35d0b3d5dd755fdeff')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.3.0:')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-flexmix/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-flexmix/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ebaed1ebd87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-flexmix/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RFlexmix(RPackage):
+    """flexmix: Flexible Mixture Modeling"""
+
+    homepage = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=flexmix"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/flexmix_2.3-14.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/flexmix"
+
+    version('2.3-14', '5be4f7764e6a697f4586e60c2bf6e960')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.15.0:')
+    # depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-modeltools@0.2-16:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-nnet', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-formatr/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-formatr/package.py
index 011111af07b..7abb0240744 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-formatr/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-formatr/package.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class RFormatr(RPackage):
 
     version('1.4', '98b9b64b2785b35f9df403e1aab6c73c')
 
-    depends_on('r-codetools', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-codetools', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-shiny', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-testit', type=('build', 'run'))
     # depends_on('r-knitr', type=('build', 'run')) - mutual dependency
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-fpc/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-fpc/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8a50a984f4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-fpc/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RFpc(RPackage):
+    """fpc: Flexible Procedures for Clustering"""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/fpc_2.1-10.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/fpc"
+
+    version('2.1-10', '75e5340e416cd13d7751e06f1c07866b')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.0.0:')
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-cluster', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-mclust', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-flexmix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-prabclus', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-class', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-diptest', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-mvtnorm', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-robustbase', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-kernlab', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-trimcluster', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggplot2/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggplot2/package.py
index e5c80e4b799..ee74f21fbc4 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggplot2/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggplot2/package.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class RGgplot2(RPackage):
 
     depends_on('r-digest', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-gtable@0.1.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-plyr@1.7.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-reshape2', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-scales@0.4.1', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggpubr/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggpubr/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..52184b73070
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggpubr/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RGgpubr(RPackage):
+    """ggpubr: 'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots"""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.sthda.com/english/rpkgs/ggpubr"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggpubr_0.1.2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggpubr"
+
+    version('0.1.2', '42a5749ae44121597ef511a7424429d1')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.1.0:')
+    depends_on('r-ggplot2', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ggrepel', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ggsci', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-plyr', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggrepel/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggrepel/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c1547655c0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggrepel/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RGgrepel(RPackage):
+    """ggrepel: Repulsive Text and Label Geoms for 'ggplot2'"""
+
+    homepage = "http://github.com/slowkow/ggrepel"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggrepel_0.6.5.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggrepel"
+
+    version('0.6.5', '7e2732cd4840efe2dc9e4bc689cf1ee5')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.0.0:')
+    depends_on('r-ggplot2@2.0.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-scales@0.3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggsci/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggsci/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fb811ff2fe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-ggsci/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RGgsci(RPackage):
+    """ggsci: Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for
+    'ggplot2'"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/road2stat/ggsci"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggsci_2.4.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggsci"
+
+    version('2.4', '8e5dc2fcf84352cacbb91363e26c7175')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.0.2:')
+    depends_on('r-scales', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ggplot2@2.0.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leaps/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leaps/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..077ea282baa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-leaps/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RLeaps(RPackage):
+    """leaps: Regression Subset Selection"""
+
+    homepage = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=leaps"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/leaps_3.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/leaps"
+
+    version('3.0', '30823138890680e0493d1491c8f43edc')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lme4/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lme4/package.py
index 0ca545ced90..712deb37f36 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lme4/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-lme4/package.py
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ class RLme4(RPackage):
 
     version('1.1-12', 'da8aaebb67477ecb5631851c46207804')
 
-    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-nlme', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-nlme', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-minqa', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-nloptr', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-rcpp', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrix/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrix/package.py
index ba1323a7372..cf945f0657d 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrix/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrix/package.py
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ class RMatrix(RPackage):
     version('1.2-8', '4a6406666bf97d3ec6b698eea5d9c0f5')
     version('1.2-6', 'f545307fb1284861e9266c4e9712c55e')
 
-    depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrixmodels/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrixmodels/package.py
index 0958de49a3f..4a89d41e66b 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrixmodels/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-matrixmodels/package.py
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ class RMatrixmodels(RPackage):
 
     version('0.4-1', '65b3ab56650c62bf1046a3eb1f1e19a0')
 
-    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-mclust/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-mclust/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5bf58c02cd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-mclust/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RMclust(RPackage):
+    """mclust: Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering,
+    Classification, and Density Estimation"""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.stat.washington.edu/mclust"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/mclust_5.3.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/mclust"
+
+    version('5.3', '74aac9fccdfc78373ce733c1a09176ef')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.0.0:')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-mgcv/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-mgcv/package.py
index 611abfd47c1..ee5b7075930 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-mgcv/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-mgcv/package.py
@@ -38,5 +38,5 @@ class RMgcv(RPackage):
     version('1.8-16', '4c1d85e0f80b017bccb4b63395842911')
     version('1.8-13', '30607be3aaf44b13bd8c81fc32e8c984')
 
-    depends_on('r-nlme', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-nlme', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-nlme/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-nlme/package.py
index 32fa484f60a..183891981ab 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-nlme/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-nlme/package.py
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ class RNlme(RPackage):
     version('3.1-130', '1935d6e308a8018ed8e45d25c8731288')
     version('3.1-128', '3d75ae7380bf123761b95a073eb55008')
 
-    depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-pbkrtest/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-pbkrtest/package.py
index 2a2edc50ce5..d45970ad598 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-pbkrtest/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-pbkrtest/package.py
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@ class RPbkrtest(RPackage):
     depends_on('r@3.2.3:')
 
     depends_on('r-lme4@1.1.10:', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-matrix@1.2.3:', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-matrix@1.2.3:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-prabclus/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-prabclus/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..424d75274d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-prabclus/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RPrabclus(RPackage):
+    """prabclus: Functions for Clustering of Presence-Absence, Abundance and
+    Multilocus Genetic Data"""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/prabclus_2.2-6.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/prabclus"
+
+    version('2.2-6', '7f835dcc113243e1db74aad28ce93d11')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.1.0:')
+    # depends_on('r-mass', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-mclust', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-quantreg/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-quantreg/package.py
index c9bdaefa44e..b48e65988df 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-quantreg/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-quantreg/package.py
@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@ class RQuantreg(RPackage):
     version('5.26', '1d89ed932fb4d67ae2d5da0eb8c2989f')
 
     depends_on('r-sparsem', type=('build', 'run'))
-    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-matrixmodels', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rcppeigen/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rcppeigen/package.py
index b33e938d5bf..2210be32125 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rcppeigen/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rcppeigen/package.py
@@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ class RRcppeigen(RPackage):
     version('0.3.2.9.0', '14a7786882a5d9862d53c4b2217df318')
     version('0.3.2.8.1', '4146e06e4fdf7f4d08db7839069d479f')
 
-    depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-matrix', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-rcpp', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-scatterplot3d/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-scatterplot3d/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..edb92a08208
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-scatterplot3d/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RScatterplot3d(RPackage):
+    """scatterplot3d: 3D Scatter Plot"""
+
+    homepage = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=scatterplot3d"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/scatterplot3d_0.3-40.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/scatterplot3d"
+
+    version('0.3-40', '67b9ab6131d244d7fc1db39dcc911dfe')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.7.0:')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-trimcluster/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-trimcluster/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..770718ae009
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-trimcluster/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RTrimcluster(RPackage):
+    """trimcluster: Cluster analysis with trimming"""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/trimcluster_0.1-2.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/trimcluster"
+
+    version('0.1-2', '7617920e224bd18f5b87db38a3116ec2')
+
+    depends_on('r@1.9.0:')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-viridis/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-viridis/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..55f879e90e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-viridis/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RViridis(RPackage):
+    """viridis: Default Color Maps from 'matplotlib'"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/sjmgarnier/viridis"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/viridis_0.4.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/viridis"
+
+    version('0.4.0', 'f874384cbedf459f6c309ddb40b354ea')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.1.0:')
+    depends_on('r-viridislite@0.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-ggplot2@1.0.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-gridextra', type=('build', 'run'))
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-viridislite/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-viridislite/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fc65b7f3931
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-viridislite/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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 LICENSE file 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 RViridislite(RPackage):
+    """viridisLite: Default Color Maps from 'matplotlib' (Lite Version)"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/sjmgarnier/viridisLite"
+    url      = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/viridisLite_0.2.0.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/viridisLite"
+
+    version('0.2.0', '04a04415cf651a2b5f964b261896c0fb')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.1.0:')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-zoo/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-zoo/package.py
index 7418d36a64d..49f29042cf8 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-zoo/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-zoo/package.py
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ class RZoo(RPackage):
     version('1.7-14', '8c577a7c1e535c899ab14177b1039c32')
     version('1.7-13', '99521dfa4c668e692720cefcc5a1bf30')
 
-    depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))
+    # depends_on('r-lattice', type=('build', 'run'))