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 Package: tidyselect
 Title: Select from a Set of Strings
-Version: 1.2.1
+Version: 1.2.1.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Lionel", "Henry", , "lionel@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = "aut"),
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+# tidyselect (development version)
+
 # tidyselect 1.2.1
 
 * Performance improvements (#337, #338, #339, #341)