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+Package: h2owave
+Title: R Driver for H2O Wave Realtime Apps Framework
+Version: 1.0.0
+Date: 2022-05-03
+Authors@R: c( 
+    person(given = "Ashrith",
+           family = "Barthur",
+           role = c("aut", "cre"),
+           email = "ashrith.barthur@h2o.ai"),
+    person(given = "Prithvi",
+            family = "Prabhu",
+            role = c("aut"),
+            email = "prithvi.prabhu@h2o.ai"),
+    person(given = "Martin",
+            family = "Turoci",
+            role = c("ctb"),
+            email = "martin.turoci@h2o.ai")
+            )  
+Description: H2O Wave is a lightweight software stack for programming interactive web applications entirely in R (no HTML/Javascript/CSS) required. It is designed to make it fast, fun and easy to build low-latency, realtime, collaborative, web-based applications. It ships batteries-included with a suite of form and data visualization components for rapidly prototyping analytical and decision-support applications. Wave’s components work in conjunction with the Wave relay server that facilitates realtime state synchronization between R and web browsers.
+License: Apache License (>= 2.0)
+URL: https://github.com/h2oai/wave
+BugReports: https://github.com/h2oai/wave/issues
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: true
+Depends: 
+    R(>= 3.5),
+    jsonlite,
+    devtools,
+    httr,
+    stringr,
+    httpuv,
+    R6(>= 2.0)
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 7.2.0