diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index a87f056f501f1c60e45a81cd45614b666e44e587..3b5b311b629a32f00a8b6ff9e1d1920f3bdceaae 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import(DECIPHER)
 import(GenomicRanges)
 import(ape)
 import(cowplot)
+import(dplyr)
 import(ggdendro)
 import(ggtree)
 import(phangorn)
diff --git a/R/meshclustR.R b/R/meshclustR.R
index 954c71211419bc46bde91dc66a7b27460845e8ea..529dd1ac2e7c6445f1b83f75e797aed0cd2ea4cd 100644
--- a/R/meshclustR.R
+++ b/R/meshclustR.R
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #' meshclustR(seqs = MyDNAStringSet, meshclust_bin = meshclust, filepath = path)
 #' @import Biostrings
 #' @import tidyverse
+#' @import dplyr
 #' @export
 meshclustR <- function(seqs = MyDNAStringSet,
                        meshclust_bin = meshclust,