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-plyr 0.1.8 (2008-XX-XX) ---------------------------------------------------
+plyr 0.1.8 (2008-04-20) ---------------------------------------------------
 
 * made rbind a little faster (~20%) using an idea from Richard Raubertas
 * daply now works correctly when splitting variables that contain empty factor levels