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+rglobi 0.2.24
+===============
+NEW FEATURES
+
+IMPROVEMENT
+
+BUG FIXES
+* replace broken url http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/wgs-84/ with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System .
+
 rglobi 0.2.23
 ===============
 NEW FEATURES
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 Dear Reviewers:
 
-I built this package using [R CMD build .] and checked it with command [R CMD check --as-cran rglobi_0.2.25.tar.gz] on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver (4.15.0-135-generic) machine running R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31) . Also, the checks were executed on travis-ci.org (running Ubuntu), github workflows (windows/mac/ubuntu), and winbuilder (running windows). 
+I built this package using [R CMD build .] and checked it with command [R CMD check --as-cran rglobi_0.2.24.tar.gz] on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver (4.15.0-135-generic) machine running R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31) . Also, the checks were executed on travis-ci.org (running Ubuntu), github workflows (windows/mac/ubuntu), and winbuilder (running windows). 
 
 IMPROVEMENT
 * minor changes by @jimhester (thanks Jim!) to prepare for readr 2.0.0 release via https://github.com/ropensci/rglobi/pull/37 .