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+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.RData
+.Ruserdata
diff --git a/OpusData.Rproj b/OpusData.Rproj
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+
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+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 2
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: Sweave
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX