diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a75d70104b5394a1c2dc81597c3e9f44a1b25e89..f0a2f27db46dd34758b898f1d585a8135a8216b7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ Imports:
     parallel,
     randomForestSRC,
     ranger (>= 0.12.1),
-    Rcpp,
     rlist
 Suggests: 
     testthat (>= 3.0.0)