diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e2d566b1b..1d81816ed 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Suggests:
     nestcolor (>= 0.1.0),
     pkgload,
     rlang (>= 1.0.0),
+    rmarkdown (>= 2.23),
     rtables (>= 0.6.6),
     rvest,
     shinytest2,
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ Config/Needs/verdepcheck: haleyjeppson/ggmosaic, tidyverse/ggplot2,
     aphalo/ggpmisc, aphalo/ggpp, slowkow/ggrepel, baddstats/goftest,
     gridExtra, ramnathv/htmlwidgets, jeroen/jsonlite, yihui/knitr,
     deepayan/lattice, daroczig/logger, MASS,
-    insightsengineering/nestcolor, r-lib/rlang,
+    insightsengineering/nestcolor, r-lib/rlang, rstudio/rmarkdown,
     insightsengineering/rtables, tidyverse/rvest, sparkline,
     rstudio/shinytest2, insightsengineering/teal.data, r-lib/testthat,
     r-lib/withr