diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d5e630a17e066d140845f07948d2c02ad182d3b6..e355bd791ca2c196e59fa05a7cf7f2989ade88b1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ LinkingTo: Rcpp, BH
 Encoding: UTF-8
 NeedsCompilation: yes
 RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)