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Author: lorenzwalthert

NEWS.md

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 * `#>` is recognized as an output marker and no space is added after `#` (#771).
 * multi-expressions containing multiple assignments no longer remove line breaks
   if they are not causing blank lines (#809).
+* `exclude_dirs` in `style_pkg()` is now properly respected if it is a 
+  sub-directory of a directory that is scheduled for styling (e.g. 
+  `test/testthat/some/dir`) (#811).
 * R code chunks in nested non-R chunks in R markdown don't yield an error 
   anymore when document is styled, chunks are still not styled (#788, #794).
 * `cache_activate()` and `cache_deactivate()` now respect the R