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+Package: matomor
+Type: Package
+Title: API Client Library for Matomo
+Version: 0.1.0
+Authors@R:
+    c(person(given = "Marc",
+             family = "Kupietz",
+             role = c("aut", "cre"),
+             email = "kupietz@ids-mannheim.de"))
+Description: A client package that makes the 'matomo' web service API accessible from R.
+Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
+Language: en-US
+License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: false
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
+Imports:
+    ggplot2,
+    tibble,
+    magrittr,
+    tidyr,
+    dplyr,
+    lubridate,
+    highcharter,
+    jsonlite,
+    keyring,
+    htmlwidgets,
+    utils,
+    httr,
+Suggests:
+    testthat
+Collate: 
+    'visitssummary.R'
+    'reexports.R'