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@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 scip_data.csv
 testing_code.R
+^cran-comments\.md$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Title: Easy Interface for Clustering a Set of Documents and Exploring Group-
 Version: 0.1.0
 Date: 2015-06-11
 Author: Josh Rosenberg, Alex Lishinski
-Maintainer: Who to complain to <alexlishinski@gmail.com>
+Maintainer: Alex Lishinski <alexlishinski@gmail.com>
 Description: This package provides an interface to perform cluster analysis
     on a corpus of text. Interfaces to Quanteda to assemble text corpuses easily.
     Deviationalizes text vectors prior to clustering using technique described
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+## Test environments
+* local OS X install, R 3.3.1
+* ubuntu 12.04 (on travis-ci), R 3.3.1
+* win-builder (devel and release)
+
+## R CMD check results
+
+0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note
+
+* This is a new release.
+
+## Reverse dependencies
+
+This is a new release, so there are no reverse dependencies.
+
+---
+
+* I have run R CMD check on the NUMBER downstream dependencies.
+  (Summary at ...). 
+  
+* FAILURE SUMMARY
+
+* All revdep maintainers were notified of the release on RELEASE DATE.