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 Package: mlr3data
 Title: Collection of Machine Learning Data Sets for 'mlr3'
-Version: 0.9.0
+Version: 0.9.0.9000
 Authors@R:
     c(person(given = "Michel",
              family = "Lang",
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+# mlr3data (development version)
+
 # mlr3data 0.9.0
 
 * Readd `ames_housing` data set.