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-This package was submitted to CRAN on 2020-03-07.
-Once it is accepted, delete this file and tag the release (commit 31fe6c7a47).
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-## submission (version 0.8.1) [07/03/2020]
+## submission (version 0.8.1) [11/03/2020]
 
 **new**: compliance fixes related to new quanteda release