import: cran: Add support for git repositories.

* guix/import/cran.scm (vcs-file?): New procedure.
(download): Support downloading from git.
(fetch-description): Add a clause for the 'git repository type.
(files-match-pattern?): New procedure.
(tarball-files-match-pattern?): Implement in terms of FILES-MATCH-PATTERN?.
(directory-needs-fortran?, directory-needs-zlib?,
directory-needs-pkg-config?): New procedures.
(needs-fortran?, needs-zlib?, needs-pkg-config?): Rename these procedures...
(tarball-needs-fortran?, tarball-needs-zlib?, tarball-needs-pkg-config?):
...to this, and use them.
(file-hash): New procedure.
(description->package): Handle the 'git repository type.
* guix/import/utils.scm (package->definition): Handle package expression
inside of a let.
* guix/scripts/import.scm (guix-import): Handle let expressions.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Document it.

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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 5a64b89086..a87a8a3d9a 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -8638,6 +8638,14 @@ R package:
 guix import cran --archive=bioconductor GenomicRanges
 @end example
 
+Finally, you can also import R packages that have not yet been published on
+CRAN or Bioconductor as long as they are in a git repository.  Use
+@code{--archive=git} followed by the URL of the git repository:
+
+@example
+guix import cran --archive=git https://github.com/immunogenomics/harmony
+@end example
+
 @item texlive
 @cindex TeX Live
 @cindex CTAN