diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ba4f41dca0556ea5d43dcd62ed86179161730b6c..fa8c262c16d6f490c15b4e25692e067ca9aea80a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ Imports:
     RCurl,
     reshape2,
     lubridate,
-    plyr,
-    httr
+    plyr
 Suggests:
     xtable,
     knitr,