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 Package: popprxl
 Type: Package
 Title: Read GenAlEx Files Directly from Excel
-Version: 0.1.99
-Date: 2015-07-18
+Version: 0.1.1
+Date: 2015-07-22
 Authors@R: c(person(c("Zhian", "N."), "Kamvar", role = c("cre", "aut"),
     email = "kamvarz@science.oregonstate.edu"))
 Maintainer: Zhian N. Kamvar <kamvarz@science.oregonstate.edu>
 Encoding: UTF-8
-Description: A wrapper for 'readxl' to read GenAlEx data directly into 'poppr'. 
+Description: GenAlEx is a popular Excel macro for genetic analysis. The 'poppr' R package allows import of GenAlEx formatted CSV data. This package serves as a small 'poppr' add on for those who have trouble or simply do not want to export their data into CSV format.
 Depends: poppr (>= 2.0.1)
 Imports: readxl, utils
 License: GPL-3
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+popprxl 0.1.1
+===========
+
+BUG FIX
+
+* A bug where geographic information could not be imported was fixed. See issue #1 (https://github.com/zkamvar/popprxl/issues/1)
+
+popprxl 0.1
+===========
+
+* Initial version of popprxl
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