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 Package: h3
 Title: R bindings for H3
-Version: 0.1.0
-Date: 2019-01-17
+Version: 0.1.1
+Date: 2019-02-01
 Authors@R: person("Stefan","Kuethe", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "crazycapivara@gmail.com")
 Maintainer: Stefan Kuethe <crazycapivara@gmail.com>
 Description: Provides R bindings for H3 <https://uber.github.io/h3/>,
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+# h3 0.1.1
+
+* Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package.