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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ This repo is an R package. This means:
  * if you clone it you can build it and use the functions
  * we use drake like this:
      * make_XX.R contains a call to drake::r_make(source = "_drake_XX.R")
-     * _drake_XX.R contans the drake plan and the functions & package loading. This is not quite what the [drake book](https://books.ropensci.org/drake/projects.html#usage) recommends but it works for us
+     * _drake_XX.R contains the drake plan and the functions & package loading. This is not quite what the [drake book](https://books.ropensci.org/drake/projects.html#usage) recommends but it works for us
      * Rmd scripts called by the drake plan to report results are kept in /Rmd
      * outputs are kept in /docs (reports, plots etc)
      * if you can, **run Rscript ./make_cleanFeeders.R in a terminal not at the RStudio console** <- this stops RStudio from locking up