diff --git a/CRAN-SUBMISSION b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
index 6a24ce5..869c404 100644
--- a/CRAN-SUBMISSION
+++ b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Version: 0.1.2
-Date: 2025-01-28 09:52:42 UTC
-SHA: e10e6102b8f4442a362f40c7fe87cb70ff4cec88
+Date: 2025-01-28 10:20:45 UTC
+SHA: 809fd2ee96fd1e11a3f306b1b5ac5ede2f0c9558
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2aaaecb..8501e66 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Description: We provide a tidy data structure and visualisations for multiple or
     general association measures scagnostics and other pairwise scores  suitable for numerical, ordinal and nominal variables. 
     Supported measures include distance correlation, maximal information, ace correlation, Kendall's tau, and polychoric correlation.
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
+Depends:
+    R (>=  4.1.0)
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5e33cd1..11e5b4a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 * Minor change to pair_tauW for compatibility with DescTools::KendallW version 0.99.59 handling of NAs.
 * Re-instated pair_ace test
+* Added dependency on R >= 4.1.0
 
 
 # bullseye 0.1.1