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 Package: ggforce
 Type: Package
 Title: Accelerating 'ggplot2'
-Version: 0.2.2.9000
-Date: 2019-04-23
+Version: 0.3.0
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Thomas Lin",
              family = "Pedersen",
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-# ggforce (development version)
+# ggforce 0.3.0
 
 - Added `facet_matrix()` in order to facet different data columns into different
   rows and columns in a grid, in order to make e.g. scatterplot matrices and