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 Package: uwot
 Title: The Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) Method for Dimensionality Reduction
-Version: 0.1.15
+Version: 0.1.15.9000
 Authors@R: 
     c(person("James", "Melville", email = "jlmelville@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Aaron", "Lun", role="ctb"),person("Mohamed Nadhir", "Djekidel", role="ctb"),
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+# uwot 0.1.15.9000
+
 # uwot 0.1.15
 
 ## New features: