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 Version: 0.1.1
 Author: Brent Thorne
 Description: Posterdown expands on RMarkdown to generate PDF conference posters.
+Authors@R: c(
+    person("Brent", "Thorne",
+           email = "brent.thorne18@gmail.com", 
+           role = c("aut", "cre"), 
+           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1099-3857")
+    ),
+    person("Peter", "Higgins", role = "ctb")
+  )
 Maintainer: Brent Thorne <brent.thorne18@gmail.com>
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8