diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 68c03929..7fd97cf5 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Suggests:
     testthat (>= 3.0.4),
     withr (>= 2.0.0)
 VignetteBuilder:
-    knitr
+    knitr,
+    rmarkdown
 RdMacros:
     lifecycle
 Config/Needs/verdepcheck: mllg/checkmate, tidyverse/dplyr,
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ Config/Needs/verdepcheck: mllg/checkmate, tidyverse/dplyr,
     tidyverse/stringr, tidyverse/tibble, tidyverse/tidyr,
     yaml=vubiostat/r-yaml, gowerc/diffdf, yihui/knitr, rstudio/rmarkdown,
     r-lib/testthat, r-lib/withr
-Config/Needs/website: insightsengineering/nesttemplate
+Config/Needs/website: rstudio/rmarkdown, insightsengineering/nesttemplate
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Language: en-US