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 Package: cowplot
 Title: Streamlined Plot Theme and Plot Annotations for 'ggplot2'
-Version: 0.7.0.9990
+Version: 0.8.0
 Authors@R: c( person("Claus O.", "Wilke", role = c("aut", "cre"), email =
     "wilke@austin.utexas.edu"), person("RStudio", role = c("cph"), comment = "Copyright for ggplot2 code copied to cowplot." ))
 Description: Some helpful extensions and modifications to the 'ggplot2'
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-This submission prepares cowplot for the upcoming ggplot2 2.2.0 release.
+This is a major improvement that fixes numerous bugs and adds two substantial new features.
 
 ## Test environments
-* R devel and R 3.3.1 on win-builder [ via devtools::build_win() ]
+* R devel and R 3.4.1 on win-builder [ via devtools::build_win() ]
 * local OS X install x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit), R 3.4.1
 
 ## R CMD check results