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     downscaleR
 Type: Package
 Title: A climate4R package for data access <http://meteo.unican.es/climate4r>
-Version: 1.7.2
-Date: 2022-03-07
+Version: 1.8.1
+Date: 2023-06-22
 Authors@R: c(person("Bedia", "Joaquín", email = "bediaj@unican.es", role = c("aut","cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6219-4312")),
              person("Antonio", "Cofiño", email = "antonio.cofino@unican.es", role = "ctb"),
              person("Matteo", "de Felice", email = "matteo.defelice@enea.it", role = "ctb"),
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ URL: https://github.com/SantanderMetGroup/loadeR/wiki
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 Description: Enables harmonized access to either remote climate databases via OPeNDAP or to locally stored data, allowing the retrieval of user-defined dimensional slices from large climate datasets. For more details see Iturbide et al 2019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.09.009>.
 License: file LICENSE
-RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.2
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@@ -92,4 +92,7 @@ For earlier version changes, see the GitHub Releases [Tab](https://github.com/Sa
 ## v1.8.0 (21 Jun 2023) 
  * Minor fix in loadSeasonalForecast output attributes (resX and resY)
  * Bug fix in dataInventory: exact variable name retrieval by grep
- * Adapt to new class denomination for matrix objects in R version 4.X
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+ * Adapt to new class denomination for matrix objects in R version 4.X
+
+## v1.8.1 (22 Jun 2023) 
+ * Update of the DESCRIPTION file 
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