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 The DeployR Java client library ships with a number of sample applications
-provided to demonstrate some of the key featues introduced by the
+provided to demonstrate some of the key features introduced by the
 [Quick Start Tutorial](http://deployr.revolutionanalytics.com/documents/dev/clientlib)
 for the Java client library. See
 [here](examples/tutorial) for details.