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 Package: simulateDCE
 Title: Simulate data for discrete choice experiments 
-Version: 0.2.0
+Version: 0.2.0.9000
 Authors@R: 
     person(given = "Julian", family = "Sagebiel", email = "julian.sagebiel@idiv.de", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0253-6875"))
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+# simulateDCE (development version)
+
 # simulateDCE 0.2.0
 
 * readdesign can now guess the designtype. This is useful when you use sim_all and have both ngene and spdesign design files in your design folder.