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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
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 Type: Package
 Package: partition
 Title: Agglomerative Partitioning Framework for Dimension Reduction
-Version: 0.2.1.9000
+Version: 0.2.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Joshua", "Millstein", , "joshua.millstein@usc.edu", role = "aut"),
     person("Malcolm", "Barrett", , "malcolmbarrett@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
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-# partition (development version)
+# partition 0.2.2
 * Allowed `reduce_first_component()` to behave independently of `measure_variance_explained()` and better documented their relationship (#41)
 
 # partition 0.2.1