diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d5a6c27d..677a0578 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # s2 (development version)
 
+- Fixed test for `as.data.frame()` for `s2_cell()` to comply with new wk
+  version and the latest release of R (#207).
+
 # s2 1.1.1
 
 - Fix new CRAN check warnings (#202, #203).  
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-s2-cell.R b/tests/testthat/test-s2-cell.R
index 02cb0d7d..46626911 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-s2-cell.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-s2-cell.R
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ test_that("s2_cell can be put into a data.frame", {
     data.frame(geom = new_s2_cell(NA_real_)),
     new_data_frame(list(geom = new_s2_cell(NA_real_)))
   )
-  expect_error(as.data.frame(new_s2_cell(NA_real_)), "cannot coerce class")
+  expect_error(as.data.frame(new_s2_cell(NA_real_)), "cannot coerce")
 })
 
 test_that("s2_cell default format/print/str methods work", {