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 Package: SparkR
 Type: Package
-Version: 2.1.0
+Version: 2.2.0
 Title: R Frontend for Apache Spark
 Description: The SparkR package provides an R Frontend for Apache Spark.
 Authors@R: c(person("Shivaram", "Venkataraman", role = c("aut", "cre"),