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 Package: feasts
 Title: Feature Extraction and Statistics for Time Series
-Version: 0.4.0
+Version: 0.4.0.9000
 Description: Provides a collection of features, decomposition methods, 
     statistical summaries and graphics functions for the analysing tidy time
     series data. The package name 'feasts' is an acronym comprising of its key
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+# feasts (development version)
+
 # feasts 0.4.0
 
 ## New features