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 Package: joyn
 Type: Package
 Title: Tool for Diagnosis of Tables Joins and Complementary Join Features
-Version: 0.1.5
+Version: 0.1.6
 Authors@R: c(person(given = "R.Andres", 
                     family = "Castaneda", 
                     email = "acastanedaa@worldbank.org",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# joyn 0.1.6
+
 # joyn 0.1.5
 
 # joyn 0.1.4