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 Package: SparkR
 Type: Package
 Version: 2.3.4
+Title: R Front end for 'Apache Spark'
+Description: Provides an R Front end for 'Apache Spark' <https://spark.apache.org>.
 Authors@R: c(person("Shivaram", "Venkataraman", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                     email = "shivaram@cs.berkeley.edu"),
              person("Xiangrui", "Meng", role = "aut",