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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
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 Type: Package
 Package: waywiser
 Title: Ergonomic Methods for Assessing Spatial Models
-Version: 0.5.0.9000
+Version: 0.5.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Michael", "Mahoney", , "mike.mahoney.218@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2402-304X")),
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-# waywiser (development version)
+# waywiser 0.5.1
 
 * `ww_multi_scale()` now warns if you provide `crs` as an argument to `sf::st_make_grid()` via `...`. Grids created by this function will always take their CRS from `data`.