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 Package: rnoaa
-Title: NOAA Climate Data from R
-Description: An R client for many NOAA data sources including the NCDC
-    climate API at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2, with
-    functions for each of the API endpoints: data, data categories, data sets,
+Title: 'NOAA' Climate Data from R
+Description: Client for many 'NOAA' data sources including the 'NCDC'
+    climate 'API' at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2, with
+    functions for each of the 'API' 'endpoints': data, data categories, data sets,
     data types, locations, location categories, and stations. In addition, we
-    have an interface for NOAA sea ice data, the NOAA severe weather inventory,
-    ERDDAP data, NOAA Historical Observing Metadata Repository (HOMR) data,
-    NOAA storm data via IBTrACS, and tornado data via the NOAA storm prediction
-    center. NOAA buoy data is only on the buoy branch in the Github repository
+    have an interface for 'NOAA' sea ice data, the 'NOAA' severe weather inventory,
+    'NOAA' Historical Observing Metadata Repository ('HOMR') data,
+    'NOAA' storm data via 'IBTrACS', and tornado data via the 'NOAA' storm prediction
+    center. 'NOAA' buoy data is only on the buoy branch in the 'Github' repository
     for this package (see url below).
 Version: 0.3.9.9700
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
@@ -38,5 +38,4 @@ Suggests:
     testthat,
     roxygen2,
     knitr,
-    taxize,
-    V8
+    taxize