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 Package: tabshiftr
 Title: Reshape Disorganised Messy Data
-Version: 0.4.2
+Version: 0.5.0
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Steffen",
              family = "Ehrmann",
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+# tabshiftr 0.5.0 - variable types
+
+- include the possibility to specify variable data type, which will result in a column of that type
+- include header into `setFormat()` again, which enables providing tables where the column names are in the header, where they will be spliced into the table.
+
 # tabshiftr 0.4.2
 
 - include split and merge functionality for cluster ID.