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 Package: grpreg
 Title: Regularization Paths for Regression Models with Grouped Covariates
-Version: 3.1-2
-Date: 2017-07-05
+Version: 3.1-3
+Date: 2018-04-07
 Author: Patrick Breheny [aut, cre], Yaohui Zeng [ctb]
 Maintainer: Patrick Breheny <patrick-breheny@uiowa.edu>
 Depends: R (>= 3.1.0), Matrix
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+3.1-3 (2018-04-07)
+  * Internal: C code now uses || instead of |
+
 3.1-2 (2017-07-05)
   * Fixed: Bug in applying screening rules with group lasso for linear
     regression with user-specified lambda sequence (thank you very much to