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 Package: rlistings
 Title: Clinical Trial Style Data Readout Listings
-Version: 0.2.5
-Date: 2023-09-29
+Version: 0.2.5.9000
+Date: 2023-10-04
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gabriel", "Becker", , "gabembecker@gmail.com", role = "aut",
            comment = "original creator of the package"),
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+## rlistings 0.2.5.9000
+
 ## rlistings 0.2.5
  * Fixed bug in `as_listing` preventing custom formatting from being applied to key columns.
  * Updated `matrix_form` to allow `NA` values in key columns.