diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5440e27..e41e240 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ Imports:
     tidyr
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
 Depends:
-    R (>= 2.10)
+    R (>= 4.3),
+    Matrix
 Suggests: 
     rmarkdown,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
     purrr,
     stringr,
-    knitr,
-    Matrix (== 1.6.3)
+    knitr
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 VignetteBuilder: knitr