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 Package: forecasttools
 Title: R Toolbox for Short-Term Infectious Disease Forecasting
-Version: 0.1.8
+Version: 0.1.8.9000
 Authors@R:
     c(person("Dylan", "Morris",
     email = "dzl1@cdc.gov",
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+# forecasttools (development version)
+
 # forecasttools 0.1.8
 * Simplified of hubverse package installation
 * Added for approximating discrete category probabilities from continuous quantilies.