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 Package: gtable
 Title: Arrange 'Grobs' in Tables
-Version: 0.3.6
+Version: 0.3.6.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = "aut"),
     person("Thomas Lin", "Pedersen", , "thomas.pedersen@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
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+# gtable (development version)
+
 # gtable 0.3.6
 
 * Added `as.gtable()` S3 method (#97).