diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 6b9bf7d..2068517 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: projecttemplates
 Title: Project Templates for Reproducible Research and Analyses
-Version: 0.6.1
+Version: 0.6.2
 Authors@R: 
     person(given = "Jasen",
            family = "Finch",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 34ba075..3c5f348 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# projecttemplates 0.6.2
+
+* Fix for [`renv`](https://rstudio.github.io/renv/index.html) when Bioconductor dependencies are included in argument `dependencies`.
+
 # projecttemplates 0.6.1
 
 * Added the `sandbox` argument to `renvInitialise()` to allow the selection of whether sandboxing is used during [`renv`](https://rstudio.github.io/renv/index.html) initialisation.
diff --git a/R/renv.R b/R/renv.R
index bd68f7c..42f583d 100644
--- a/R/renv.R
+++ b/R/renv.R
@@ -29,8 +29,20 @@ renvInitialise <- function(project_directory,
                bare = TRUE)
     
     if (length(dependencies) > 0) {
-      renv::install(dependencies,project = project_directory)  
-    }
+      
+      if (!isFALSE(bioconductor)){
+        dependencies <- c(
+          'BiocManager',
+          dependencies
+        ) 
+      }
+      
+        lapply(
+          dependencies,
+          function(x,project_directory){renv::install(x,project = project_directory)},
+          project_directory = project_directory
+        )
+      }
     
     renv::hydrate(project = project_directory)