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+# RKorAPClient 0.5.0
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+- Initial release on CRAN.
+- Merge highcharter branch providing the new helper function `hc_freq_by_year_ci`.
+- Fix reporting chached results in verbose mode.
+- Add demo for comparing frequencies in spoken vs. written virtual corpora. See `demo("writtenVsSpoken")`
+- Don't invalidate cache on patch level increments.
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