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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# ==================================================================== #
+# TITLE:                                                               #
+# AMR: An R Package for Working with Antimicrobial Resistance Data     #
+#                                                                      #
+# SOURCE CODE:                                                         #
+# https://github.com/msberends/AMR                                     #
+#                                                                      #
+# PLEASE CITE THIS SOFTWARE AS:                                        #
+# Berends MS, Luz CF, Friedrich AW, et al. (2022).                     #
+# AMR: An R Package for Working with Antimicrobial Resistance Data.    #
+# Journal of Statistical Software, 104(3), 1-31.                       #
+# https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v104.i03                                #
+#                                                                      #
+# Developed at the University of Groningen and the University Medical  #
+# Center Groningen in The Netherlands, in collaboration with many      #
+# colleagues from around the world, see our website.                   #
+#                                                                      #
+# This R package is free software; you can freely use and distribute   #
+# it for both personal and commercial purposes under the terms of the  #
+# GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GNU GPL-2), as published by  #
+# the Free Software Foundation.                                        #
+# We created this package for both routine data analysis and academic  #
+# research and it was publicly released in the hope that it will be    #
+# useful, but it comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR LIABILITY.              #
+#                                                                      #
+# Visit our website for the full manual and a complete tutorial about  #
+# how to conduct AMR data analysis: https://msberends.github.io/AMR/   #
+# ==================================================================== #
+
+# always add these:
+git add data-raw/*
+git add man/*
+git add R/sysdata.rda
+git add NAMESPACE
+git add DESCRIPTION
+git add NEWS.md
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: AMR
-Version: 2.1.1.9064
+Version: 2.1.1.9065
 Date: 2024-07-16
 Title: Antimicrobial Resistance Data Analysis
 Description: Functions to simplify and standardise antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# AMR 2.1.1.9064
+# AMR 2.1.1.9065
 
 *(this beta version will eventually become v3.0. We're happy to reach a new major milestone soon, which will be all about the new One Health support! Install this beta using [the instructions here](https://msberends.github.io/AMR/#latest-development-version).)*