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 Author: KorAP-Team @ IDS Mannheim
 Maintainer: KorAP-Team <korap@ids-mannheim.de>
 Description: A simple package that makes KorAP's web serice API accessible from R.
+Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
 License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: false