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@@ -6,17 +6,17 @@ Title: Create and Manipulate Vocalisation Diagrams
 Version: 0.8.0
 Date: 2017-04-03
 Authors@R: person("Saturnino", "Luz", email = "luzs@acm.org", role = c("aut", "cre"))
-Description: Create adjacency
-  matrices of vocalisation graphs from dataframes containing sequences
-  of speech and silence intervals, transforming these matrices into
-  Markov diagrams, and generating datasets for classification of these
-  diagrams by 'flattening' them and adding global properties
-  (functionals) etc.  Vocalisation diagrams date back to early work in psychiatry
-  (Jaffe and Feldstein, 1970) and social psychology (Dabbs and Ruback,
-   1987) but have only recently been employed as a data representation
-   method for machine learning tasks including meeting
-   segmentation (Luz, 2012) <https://doi.org/10.1145/2328967.2328970>
-   and classification (Luz, 2013) <https://doi.org/10.1145/2522848.2533788>.
+Description: Create adjacency matrices of vocalisation graphs from
+  dataframes containing sequences of speech and silence intervals,
+  transforming these matrices into Markov diagrams, and generating
+  datasets for classification of these diagrams by 'flattening' them
+  and adding global properties (functionals) etc.  Vocalisation
+  diagrams date back to early work in psychiatry (Jaffe and Feldstein,
+  1970) and social psychology (Dabbs and Ruback, 1987) but have only
+  recently been employed as a data representation method for machine
+  learning tasks including meeting segmentation (Luz, 2012)
+  <https://doi.org/10.1145/2328967.2328970> and classification (Luz,
+  2013) <https://doi.org/10.1145/2522848.2533788>.
 Depends: R (>= 3.0.0)
 Suggests: igraph, foreign
 Imports: graphics
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+* Initial release