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+Package: NRT-AP
+Title: A Placeholder Description File to Test Package
+Version: 1.0.0
+Authors@R: 
+    c(person(given = "Kyle",
+             family = "Messier",
+             role = c("aut", "cre"),
+             email = "kyle.messier@nih.gov"))
+Description: This will one day be a package that provides near real time air pollution data
+Imports: terra, sf
+Suggests: covr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
+License: GPL (>= 2)
+VignetteBuilder: knitr, rmarkdown