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 Package: SparkR
 Type: Package
 Title: R frontend for Spark
-Version: 1.4.0
+Version: 1.5.0
 Date: 2013-09-09
 Author: The Apache Software Foundation
 Maintainer: Shivaram Venkataraman <shivaram@cs.berkeley.edu>