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 # gsDesign 3.2.0 (January, 2021)
 
- - Substantially updated unit testing to increase code coverage above 80%
- - Updated error checking messages to print function where check fails
- - Removed dependencies on plyr packages
+- Substantially updated unit testing to increase code coverage above 80%
+- Updated error checking messages to print function where check fails
+- Removed dependencies on plyr packages
  
 # gsDesign 3.1.1 (May, 2020)