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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Title: Fast Unified Random Forests for Survival, Regression, and
 Author: Hemant Ishwaran <hemant.ishwaran@gmail.com>, Udaya B. Kogalur <ubk@kogalur.com>
 Maintainer: Udaya B. Kogalur <ubk@kogalur.com>
 BugReports: https://github.com/kogalur/randomForestSRC/issues/
-Depends: R (>= 4.3.0),
+Depends: R (>= 4.2.0),
 Imports: parallel, data.tree, DiagrammeR
 Suggests: survival, pec, prodlim, mlbench, interp, caret, imbalance,
         cluster, fst, data.table