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+# Upcoming release
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+- Degrees of freedom are now (as a new default) reported without a comma as a big mark, resolves #559 reported by @Fritz-theCat.
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 # papaja 0.1.1
 
 - Maintenance update: Adjusted unit tests to avoid removal from CRAN