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 Package: netReg
 Type: Package
 Title: Network-Regularized Regression Models
-Version: 1.5.1
+Version: 1.6.0
 Date: 2018-04-28
 Authors@R: person("Simon", "Dirmeier",
                     email = "simon.dirmeier@web.de", role = c("aut", "cre"))