diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 4e89548..142241e 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ importFrom(dplyr,filter)
 importFrom(dplyr,left_join)
 importFrom(dplyr,mutate)
 importFrom(jsonlite,fromJSON)
-importFrom(lubridate,epiweek)
 importFrom(purrr,discard)
 importFrom(purrr,keep)
 importFrom(purrr,map)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7e24d18..6cd187b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # cdcfluview 0.9.0
 
 - fix bug in epiweek computation in ilinet() thanks to a bug report by @jturtle (#19)
+- included cloc metrics and refreshed README
+- 
 
 # cdcfluview 0.7.0
 
diff --git a/man/cdcfluview.Rd b/man/cdcfluview.Rd
index 727c5e3..a5aa25e 100644
--- a/man/cdcfluview.Rd
+++ b/man/cdcfluview.Rd
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 \name{cdcfluview}
 \alias{cdcfluview}
 \alias{cdcfluview-package}
-\title{Retrieve 'U.S'.' Flu Season Data from the 'CDC' 'FluView' Portal}
+\title{Retrieve Flu Season Data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ('CDC') 'FluView' Portal}
 \description{
 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) maintains a portal
 \url{http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html} for
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R b/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R
index 3fb8db2..0fc5fd2 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ test_that("New API works", {
 
   skip_on_cran()
 
+  nat_dat <- ilinet(region="national", years=1997:2018)
+  expect_equal(unique(diff(nat_dat$week_start)), 7)
+  expect_equal(
+    as.character(unique(lubridate::wday(unique(nat_dat$week_start), label=TRUE))),
+    "Sun"
+  )
+
   expect_that(ilinet("national", years=2017), is_a("data.frame"))
   expect_that(ilinet("hhs", years=2017), is_a("data.frame"))
   expect_that(ilinet("census", years=2017), is_a("data.frame"))