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 Author: Jay Ver Hoef
 Description: Package in support of paper on Spatial Autoregressive Models for Ecological Inference
 Version: 1.0
-Date: 2015-9-6
+Date: 2017-9-8
 Depends: MASS, maptools, sp, rgeos, Matrix
 
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 # spAReco
 ## An R package in support of publication, "Spatial Autoregressive Models for Statistical Inference from Ecological Data."