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 For API access from R, check out the
 [rwars](https://github.com/Ironholds/rwars) package by Oliver Keyes. Big
-thanks to `rwars` for making it easy to access the Star Wars API\!
+thanks to `rwars` for making it easy to access the Star Wars API!