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 Package: distributions3
 Title: Probability Distributions as S3 Objects
-Version: 0.1.2
+Version: 0.1.2.9000
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Alex",
              family = "Hayes",
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+# distributions3 (development version)
+
 # distributions3 0.1.2
 
 * Added a plotting generic for univariate distributions (@paulnorthrop, PR #56)