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 Package: zalpha
 Type: Package
 Title: Run a Suite of Selection Statistics
-Version: 0.1.0.9000
+Version: 0.2.0
 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 0.1.0.9000 (development version)
+# zalpha 0.2.0
 
 * Can now accept data with missing values
 * New function create_LDprofile for generating an LD profile