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 Package: posterdown
-Author: Brent Thorne
 Title: Generate PDF conference posters using R Markdown
 Version: 0.1.2
 Description: Posterdown expands on RMarkdown to generate PDF conference posters
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     person("Peter", "Higgins", role = "ctb"),
     person("Shea", "Connell", role = "ctb")
   )
-Maintainer: Brent Thorne <brent.thorne18@gmail.com>
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true