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 Package: zalpha
 Type: Package
 Title: Run a Suite of Selection Statistics
-Version: 0.2.0
+Version: 0.2.0.9999
 Author: Clare Horscroft
 Maintainer: Clare Horscroft <c.horscroft@soton.ac.uk>
 Description: A suite of statistics for identifying areas of the genome under selective pressure. See Jacobs, Sluckin and Kivisild (2016) <doi:10.1534/genetics.115.185900>.
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+# zalpha 0.2.0.9999 (Development version)
+
 # zalpha 0.2.0
 
 * Can now accept data with missing values