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 Package: knitr
 Type: Package
 Title: A general-purpose package for dynamic report generation in R
-Version: 0.9.9
-Date: 2012-12-05
+Version: 1.0
+Date: 2013-01-14
 Authors@R: c(person("Hadley", "Wickham", email = "hadley@rice.edu", role =
     "ctb"), person("Ramnath", "Vaidyanathan", role = "ctb"), person("Joseph J.",
     "Allaire", role = "ctb"), person("Tom", "Torsney-Weir", role =
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-# CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 0.10
+# CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.0
 
 ## NEW FEATURES