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 Package: statcheck
 Title: Extract Statistics from Articles and Recompute P-Values
-Version: 1.4.1
-Date: 2023-04-03
+Version: 1.4.1-beta.1
+Date: 2023-04-13
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Michele B.", "Nuijten", email = "m.b.nuijten@uvt.nl", 
            role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1468-8585")),
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+# statcheck 1.4.1
+
+## Major external changes
+
+## Major internal changes
+
+## Small updates
+* Simplified regular expression to detect chi-square test. There were some unused/unnecessary parts in the regexes.
+* Also recognize lower case n in sample size reporting in chi-square tests. E.g.: chi2(12, n = 323) = ...
+
+## Bug fixes
+* Recognize "narrow non-breaking spaces" in HTML files. This was an issue in articles in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, especially in papers published in 2019
+
+
 # statcheck 1.4.0
 <!---searched in commits on statcheck repo: `committer-date:2020-03-15..2020-04-30`
 and checked out changes in the beta releases --->