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 Package: ROvis.utils
 Title: Utilities for Rijksoverheid-Styled Data Visualizations
-Version: 0.1.0
+Version: 0.1.0.9000
 Authors@R: person("ROvis team", email = "spin@rivm.nl", role = c("cre", "aut"))
 Description: Provides shared utilities for the ROvis suite, including Rijksoverheid
     color palettes, palette validation, and font-availability checks, so that themes
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+# ROvis.utils (development version)
+
 # ROvis.utils 0.1.0
 
 First release since `ROvis.utils` was split out of the `ROvis` monolith into its own