diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
 Depends:
-    R (>= 4.3.0)
+    R (>= 4.4.0)
 Imports:
     SpatialExperiment,
     SummarizedExperiment,