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+Package: revealjs
+Type: Package
+Title: R Markdown format for revealjs presentations
+Version: 0.5
+Date: 2014-09-15
+Author: JJ Allaire
+Maintainer: JJ Allaire <jj@rstudio.com>
+Description: More about what it does (maybe more than one line)
+License: GPL-3
+Depends:
+    R (>= 3.0)
+Imports:
+    rmarkdown(>= 0.3.2)