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 Bug fixes
 * Provide default CRAN mirror if missing in install_load_cran_packages(), e.g., in a child R session during knitting. Fixes 'trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror' error (#218)
 * Update template.tex so that flextable package can be used to create tables in PDF documents (#226)
+* Clean up invalid ORCID placeholder generated by usethis 3.0.0 that threw error on R version 4.5.x (#248)
 
 Other improvements
 * create_visc_project() now discards README.Rmd after knitting template to README.md (#223)