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@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ In general we use:
 
 for all our data manipulation and:
 
-> <data>_<action> for our function names
+> <<data>>_<<action>> for our function names
 
 Thus the function to:
 
  * load the survey file and return it as a [data.table](https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/) is `SAVEr::survey_load(f)` where f is the file path
  * create the derived (recoded) tenure variable in the survey data is `SAVEr::survey_dv_tenure(dt)` where dt is the survey file as a [data.table](https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/)
  
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