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 Package: RKorAPClient
 Type: Package
 Title: 'KorAP' Web Service Client Package
-Version: 1.3.0.9000
+Version: 1.4.0
 Authors@R:
     c(person(given = "Marc",
              family = "Kupietz",
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-# unpublished dev version 1.3.0.9000
+# RKorAPClient 1.4.0
 
 - **`cacheAs` now consistently covers all query functions** – `frequencyQuery()`, `corpusStats()`, `collocationScoreQuery()` and `textMetadata()`. The cache file records its relevant production context: parameters, KorAP instance, index revision and package version. `cacheAsInfo()` prints that record, `blessCacheAs()` vouches for a file that is sound regardless, and `withCachedResults()` takes the files as they are for one expression, `mode = "offline"` refusing to compute anything that is not in one already