diff --git a/src/R/DESCRIPTION b/src/R/DESCRIPTION
index b7c22a1..a8cdf56 100644
--- a/src/R/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/src/R/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 Package: Rsomoclu
-Version: 1.7.5.2
-Date: 2018-11-29
+Version: 1.7.5.3
+Date: 2019-01-03
 Title: Somoclu
-Depends: Rcpp
 Imports: kohonen
 Suggests:
 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Peter", family = "Wittek", role = c("aut"), email = ""),
diff --git a/src/R/NAMESPACE b/src/R/NAMESPACE
index 878b339..3346df6 100644
--- a/src/R/NAMESPACE
+++ b/src/R/NAMESPACE
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 useDynLib(Rsomoclu, .registration = TRUE)
 export(Rsomoclu.train)
 export(Rsomoclu.kohonen)
-import(Rcpp)
 import(kohonen)
 importFrom(kohonen, somgrid)
diff --git a/src/R/src/Makevars b/src/R/src/Makevars
index 1e392e2..e24ad67 100644
--- a/src/R/src/Makevars
+++ b/src/R/src/Makevars
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 CXX_STD = CXX11
-PKG_LIBS = `$(R_HOME)/bin/Rscript -e "Rcpp:::LdFlags()"` $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
-PKG_CXXFLAGS = `$(R_HOME)/bin/Rscript -e "Rcpp:::CxxFlags()"` $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) -DHAVE_R
+PKG_LIBS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
+PKG_CXXFLAGS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) -DHAVE_R
diff --git a/src/R/src/Makevars.win b/src/R/src/Makevars.win
index 1e392e2..e24ad67 100644
--- a/src/R/src/Makevars.win
+++ b/src/R/src/Makevars.win
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 CXX_STD = CXX11
-PKG_LIBS = `$(R_HOME)/bin/Rscript -e "Rcpp:::LdFlags()"` $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
-PKG_CXXFLAGS = `$(R_HOME)/bin/Rscript -e "Rcpp:::CxxFlags()"` $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) -DHAVE_R
+PKG_LIBS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
+PKG_CXXFLAGS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) -DHAVE_R