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 Package: lotri
 Title: A Simple Way to Specify Symmetric, Block Diagonal Matrices
-Version: 1.0.0
+Version: 1.0.0.9000
 Authors@R:
     c(person("Matthew L.", "Fidler", , "matthew.fidler@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8538-6691")),
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+# lotri (development version)
+
 # lotri 1.0.0
 
 * Added a new way of specifying lotri matrices: