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 Package: vegan
 Title: Community Ecology Package
 Version: 2.5-2
-Date: 2018-04-24
+Date: 2018-05-16
 Author: Jari Oksanen, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Michael Friendly, Roeland Kindt,
    Pierre Legendre, Dan McGlinn, Peter R. Minchin, R. B. O'Hara,
    Gavin L. Simpson, Peter Solymos, M. Henry H. Stevens, Eduard Szoecs,