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 Package: embed
 Title: Extra Recipes for Encoding Predictors
-Version: 1.1.4
+Version: 1.1.4.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Emil", "Hvitfeldt", , "emil.hvitfeldt@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0679-1945")),
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+# embed (development version)
+
 # embed 1.1.4
 
 ## Improvements