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 Package: scales
 Title: Scale Functions for Visualization
-Version: 1.2.1
+Version: 1.2.1.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Dana", "Seidel", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# scales (development version)
+
 # scales 1.2.1
 
 * Re-document to fix HTML issues in `.Rd`.