diff --git a/extdata/install_packages.R b/extdata/install_packages.R
index 8b2c26047..6870848e1 100644
--- a/extdata/install_packages.R
+++ b/extdata/install_packages.R
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ install.packages("vctrs", repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')
 print(packageVersion("vctrs"))
 
 
-req_packages <- c("R.utils", "Rcpp", "RcppParallel", "data.table", "RcppEigen", "Matrix", "methods", "BH", "optparse", "SPAtest", "roxygen2", "rversions","devtools", "SKAT", "RhpcBLASctl", "qlcMatrix", "dplyr", "dbplyr")
+req_packages <- c("R.utils", "Rcpp", "RcppParallel", "RcppArmadillo", "data.table", "RcppEigen", "Matrix", "methods", "BH", "optparse", "SPAtest", "roxygen2", "rversions","devtools", "SKAT", "RhpcBLASctl", "qlcMatrix", "dplyr", "dbplyr")
 for (pack in req_packages) {
     if(!require(pack, character.only = TRUE)) {
         install.packages(pack, repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org", dependencies=TRUE)