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 Package: bayesianVARs
 Title: MCMC Estimation of Bayesian Vectorautoregressions
-Version: 0.1.2
+Version: 0.1.2.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Luis", "Gruber", , "Luis.Gruber@aau.at", role = c("cph", "aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2399-738X")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# bayesianVARs (development version)
+
 # bayesianVARs 0.1.2
 
 * Added minimum version to factorstochvol in the Imports field of the DESCRIPTION file in order to avoid unnecessary building errors. Thanks to Sergey Fedorov for pointing this out.