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 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ropensci/testdat.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/ropensci/testdat)
+[![Project Status: Abandoned – Initial development has started, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release; the project has been abandoned and the author(s) do not intend on continuing development.](http://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/abandoned.svg)](http://www.repostatus.org/#abandoned)
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+The authors suggest to use [assertr](https://github.com/ropenscilabs/assertr) or other packages to test your tabular data. 
 
 # testdat!