diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 35c7b41..2b3e216 100755
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: SARTools
 Type: Package
 Title: Statistical Analysis of RNA-Seq Tools
-Version: 1.7.0
+Version: 1.7.1
 Date: 2019-09-16
 Author: Marie-Agnes Dillies and Hugo Varet
 Maintainer: Hugo Varet <hugo.varet@pasteur.fr>
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Imports: genefilter (>= 1.44.0),
 	gridExtra,
 	knitr,
 	limma,
-	RGraphics,
 	rlang,
 	rmarkdown (>= 1.4),
 	S4Vectors,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index e9906ce..0db7743 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import(kableExtra)
 importFrom(GGally,ggally_points)
 importFrom(GGally,ggpairs)
 importFrom(GGally,wrap)
-importFrom(RGraphics,splitTextGrob)
 importFrom(S4Vectors,mcols)
 importFrom(S4Vectors,metadata)
 importFrom(SummarizedExperiment,assay)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7d43fec..793386c 100755
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.1
+------------------------
+        o remove RGraphics dependency as it causes problems with conda
+
 CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.0
 ------------------------
 	o plots are now generated using ggplot2
diff --git a/R/NAMESPACE.R b/R/NAMESPACE.R
index dc5a644..0a877d0 100755
--- a/R/NAMESPACE.R
+++ b/R/NAMESPACE.R
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #' @importFrom gridExtra grid.arrange
 #' @importFrom grDevices col2rgb dev.off png
 #' @importFrom limma plotMDS
-#' @importFrom RGraphics splitTextGrob
 #' @importFrom rlang .data
 #' @importFrom rmarkdown render
 #' @importFrom S4Vectors mcols metadata