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 Type: Package
 Package: dplyr
 Title: A Grammar of Data Manipulation
-Version: 1.1.4
+Version: 1.1.4.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4757-117X")),
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+# dplyr (development version)
+
 # dplyr 1.1.4
 
 * `join_by()` now allows its helper functions to be namespaced with `dplyr::`,