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+lawn
+=======
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+[![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.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/abandoned.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#abandoned)
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+`lawn` is an R wrapper for the Javascript library [turf.js](https://turfjs.org/). In addition, we have a few functions to interface with the [geojson-random](https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-random) and [geojsonhint](https://www.npmjs.com/package/geojsonhint) Javascript libraries, for generating random GeoJSON objects and linting GeoJSON, respectively.
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-lawn
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+# lawn
 
-[![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.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/abandoned.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#abandoned)
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-`lawn` is an R wrapper for the Javascript library [turf.js](https://turfjs.org/). In addition, we have a few functions to interface with the [geojson-random](https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-random) and [geojsonhint](https://www.npmjs.com/package/geojsonhint) Javascript libraries, for generating random GeoJSON objects and linting GeoJSON, respectively.
+[![Project Status: Abandoned](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/abandoned.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#abandoned)
 
+This repository has been archived. The former README is now in [README-NOT.md](README-NOT.md).