diff --git a/install.R b/install.R
index 3b4c4758..132879d9 100644
--- a/install.R
+++ b/install.R
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 ## Copyright 2015 by Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@oth-regensburg.de>
 ## Copyright 2015-2017 by Claus Hunsen <hunsen@fim.uni-passau.de>
 ## Copyright 2017 by Thomas Bock <bockthom@fim.uni-passau.de>
+## Copyright 2020 by Thomas Bock <bockthom@cs.uni-saarland.de>
 ## Copyright 2019 by Anselm Fehnker <fehnker@fim.uni-passau.de>
 ## All Rights Reserved.
 ##
@@ -55,5 +56,7 @@ filter.installed.packages = function(packageList)  {
 p = filter.installed.packages(packages)
 if (length(p) > 0) {
     print(sprintf("Installing package '%s'.", p))
-    install.packages(p, dependencies = TRUE, verbose = FALSE, quiet = FALSE)
+
+    ## set dependencies to 'NA' to install only necessary dependencies (i.e., "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo")
+    install.packages(p, dependencies = NA, verbose = TRUE, quiet = TRUE)
 }