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I just got the news from the CRAN-team that the robotstxt version update 0.6.0 was accepted and now is available. The robotstxt package aims at working with robots.txt files from within R by providing...
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Sometimes, more precisely quite often, the standard libraries hold treasures that we are not aware of. Maybe they have obscure names, have been reinvented and shadowed by the newest cutting edge...
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