diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
 Depends:
-    base (>= 4.4.1),
-    R (>= 4.4.1),
+    R (>= 4.4.1)
 Imports:
     checkmate,
     data.table (>= 1.12.2),