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+This release is prompted by a request from Kurt Hornik and I am under a deadline of 2023-03-22. That request related to making the signature of a method match the generic.
+
 ## revdepcheck results
 
-We checked 9 reverse dependencies, comparing R CMD check results across CRAN and dev versions of this package.
+We checked 16 reverse dependencies, comparing R CMD check results across CRAN and dev versions of this package.
 
  * We saw 0 new problems
  * We failed to check 0 packages