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+Package: awesome-quant
+Title: A curated list of insanely awesome libraries, packages and resources for Quants (Quantitative Finance)
+Version: 1.0
+Authors@R: 
+    person(given = "Wilson",
+           family = "Freitas",
+           role = c("cre", "aut", "cph"),
+           email = "awesom3quant@gmail.com")
+Description: This document contains a curated list of awesome tools to assist 
+    developments in Quantitative Finance. This is not a package, and 
+    the DESCRIPTION file is included to make it easier to install required 
+    packages in GitHub action workflows.
+License: CC0 1.0 Universal
+Encoding: UTF-8
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 7.2.2
+URL: https://github.com/wilsonfreitas/awesome-quant/
+BugReports: https://github.com/wilsonfreitas/awesome-quant/issues
+Depends:
+    details,
+    fs,
+    knitr,
+    quarto,
+    reticulate
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