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+/kernlab_*.tar.gz
diff --git a/R-kernlab.spec b/R-kernlab.spec
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+%global packname kernlab
+%global packvers 0.9
+%global packrel 31
+%global rlibdir %{_libdir}/R/library
+
+Name:		R-%{packname}
+Version:	%{packvers}.%{packrel}
+Release:	1%{?dist}
+Summary:	GNU R package for kernel-based machine learning lab
+
+License:	GPLv2
+URL:		https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=%{packname}
+Source:		%{url}&version=%{packvers}-%{packrel}#/%{packname}_%{packvers}-%{packrel}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires:	R-devel
+BuildRequires:	tex(a4wide.sty)
+
+%description
+Kernel-based machine learning methods for classification,
+regression, clustering, novelty detection, quantile regression
+and dimensionality reduction. Among other methods 'kernlab'
+includes Support Vector Machines, Spectral Clustering, 
+Kernel PCA, Gaussian Processes and a QP solver.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -c -n %{packname}
+
+%build
+
+%install
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{rlibdir}
+%{_bindir}/R CMD INSTALL -l %{buildroot}%{rlibdir} %{packname}
+test -d %{packname}/src && (cd %{packname}/src; rm -f *.o *.so)
+rm -f %{buildroot}%{rlibdir}/R.css
+
+%check
+%{_bindir}/R CMD check %{packname}
+
+%files
+%dir %{rlibdir}/%{packname}
+%doc %{rlibdir}/%{packname}/CITATION
+%doc %{rlibdir}/%{packname}/doc
+%doc %{rlibdir}/%{packname}/html
+%license %{rlibdir}/%{packname}/COPYRIGHTS
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/DESCRIPTION
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/INDEX
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/NAMESPACE
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/Meta
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/R
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/data
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/help
+%{rlibdir}/%{packname}/libs
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Jul 22 2022 Ali Erdinc Koroglu <aekoroglu@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.31-1
+- Update to 0.9.31
+
+* Wed Apr 27 2022 Ali Erdinc Koroglu <aekoroglu@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.30-1
+- Initial build (#987049)
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+SHA512 (kernlab_0.9-31.tar.gz) = 6efb167af187392ebeb565e37d41fb25c68363c1b6c562a65d5073d4c899073446abeed910e09de57f2c8e3e2e1b3373ea43bf43e156953bd8ee224712df09f0