15/18: gnu: Add r-gdata.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

rekado pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 6034cd905e610e2ed5d7d40b30953917b8619535
Author: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Nov 24 15:38:41 2016 +0100

    gnu: Add r-gdata.
    
    * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-gdata): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/statistics.scm |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index 8027aed..dc519b4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -3605,6 +3605,46 @@ tests for whether a value is missing, empty or contains 
only @code{NA} and
 @code{NULL} values, and many more.")
     (license license:gpl2)))
 
+(define-public r-gdata
+  (package
+    (name "r-gdata")
+    (version "2.17.0")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (cran-uri "gdata" version))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "0kiy3jbcszlpmarg311spdsfi5pn89wgy742dxsbzxk8907fr5w0"))))
+    (build-system r-build-system)
+    (inputs
+     `(("perl" ,perl)))
+    (propagated-inputs
+     `(("r-gtools" ,r-gtools)))
+    (home-page "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gdata";)
+    (synopsis "Various R programming tools for data manipulation")
+    (description
+     "This package provides various R programming tools for data manipulation,
+including:
+
address@hidden
address@hidden medical unit conversions
address@hidden combining objects
address@hidden character vector operations
address@hidden factor manipulation
address@hidden obtaining information about R objects
address@hidden manipulating MS-Excel formatted files
address@hidden generating fixed-width format files
address@hidden extricating components of date and time objects
address@hidden operations on columns of data frames
address@hidden matrix operations
address@hidden operations on vectors and data frames
address@hidden value of last evaluated expression
address@hidden wrapper for @code{sample} that ensures consistent behavior for
+  both scalar and vector arguments
address@hidden itemize\n")
+    (license license:gpl2+)))
+
 (define-public r-kernsmooth
   (package
     (name "r-kernsmooth")