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 Type: Package
 Package: tidytext
 Title: Text Mining using 'dplyr', 'ggplot2', and Other Tidy Tools
-Version: 0.3.4.9000
+Version: 0.4.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gabriela", "De Queiroz", , "gabidequeiroz@gmail.com", role = "ctb"),
     person("Colin", "Fay", , "contact@colinfay.me", role = "ctb",
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-# tidytext (development version, to be released as 0.4.0)
+# tidytext 0.4.0
 
 * hunspell is now a suggested dependency, thanks to @MichaelChirico (#221)
 * Added `stm()` tidiers for high FREX and lift words (#223)