diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ca0c50d7b..1065bba92 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -40,20 +40,15 @@ Imports:
     tidyr,
     utils
 Suggests:
-    AUC,
-    devtools,
     Eunomia (>= 2.0.0),
     ggplot2,
     gridExtra,
     IterativeHardThresholding,
     knitr,
-    markdown,
     Metrics,
     mgcv,
     parallel,
-    plyr, 
     polspline,
-    pool,
     readr,
     ResourceSelection,
     ResultModelManager (>= 0.2.0),
diff --git a/R/SklearnClassifierSettings.R b/R/SklearnClassifierSettings.R
index 0d1ed99c2..bcb25c5d0 100644
--- a/R/SklearnClassifierSettings.R
+++ b/R/SklearnClassifierSettings.R
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ setSVM <- function(C = list(1, 0.9, 2, 0.1),
   tryCatch({
     reticulate::import("sklearn")
   }, error = function(e) {
-    stop("scikit-learn in a python environment reachable by reticulate is required to use the Python models")
+    stop("Cannot import scikit-learn in python. scikit-learn in a python environment reachable by reticulate is required to use the Python models. Please check your python setup with reticulate::py_config() followed by reticulate::import('sklearn')")
   })
   checkIsClass(seed, c("numeric", "integer"))
   checkIsClass(cacheSize, c("numeric", "integer"))
diff --git a/extras/PackageMaintenance.R b/extras/PackageMaintenance.R
index ba1ee177c..cfdd6442d 100644
--- a/extras/PackageMaintenance.R
+++ b/extras/PackageMaintenance.R
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ OhdsiRTools::fixHadesLogo()
 OhdsiRTools::formatRFolder()
 OhdsiRTools::checkUsagePackage("PatientLevelPrediction")
 OhdsiRTools::updateCopyrightYearFolder()
-devtools::spell_check()
 
 # Create manual and vignettes
 unlink("extras/PatientLevelPrediction.pdf")