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+Package: idsThemeR
+Type: Package
+Title: Plot themes for the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS)
+Version: 0.1.0
+Authors@R:
+    c(person(given = "Marc",
+             family = "Kupietz",
+             role = c("aut", "cre"),
+             email = "kupietz@ids-mannheim.de"))
+Maintainer: Marc Kupietz <kupietz@ids-mannheim.de>
+Description: The package provides a collection themes for different plotting libraries, following the corporate design of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim (Germany).
+License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: true
+Imports:
+  tidyverse,
+  highcharter,
+  magrittr,
+  RKorAPClient
+Collate:
+  'highcharter-themes.R'
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.1