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 Package: hipread
 Type: Package
 Title: Read Hierarchical Fixed Width Files
-Version: 0.2.3
+Version: 0.2.3.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Greg", "Freedman Ellis", role = "aut"),
     person("Derek Burk", email = "ipums+cran@umn.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# hipread (development version)
+
 # hipread 0.2.3
 * hipread now uses roxygen2 version 7.2.1.