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+Package: SimulPopB
+Title: SimulPopB Project R package
+Version: 1.0
+Date: 2020-07-30
+Author: Audrey Duval
+Maintainer: Audrey Duval <audrey.duval@pasteur.fr>
+Description: R functions for SimulPopB
+License: GPL (>= 2)
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: true
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
+Imports: methods, Rcpp, ggplot2, readxl, reshape2, parallel, lubridate,
+        igraph, GGally, gridExtra, RcppArmadillo, FME, coda, network,
+        scales, intergraph
+LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, BH
+RcppModules: mod_population
+Depends: R (>= 2.10)
+NeedsCompilation: yes
+Packaged: 2020-12-07 09:25:56 UTC; Audrey