diff --git a/dockerfiles/R/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/R/Dockerfile
index 1e0cea8..0ef9f79 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/R/Dockerfile
+++ b/dockerfiles/R/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-FROM rocker/verse:4.1.1
+FROM rocker/verse:4.3.2
 #Modified from here https://github.com/davismcc/r-tidybioc-img/blob/master/Dockerfile
-LABEL description="Docker image containing latest R with tidyverse and Bioconductor packages"
+LABEL description="Docker image containing DADA2, DECIPHER, phangorn, and latest R with tidyverse and Bioconductor packages"
  
 # Install container-wide requrements gcc, pip, zlib, libssl, make, libncurses, fortran77, g++, R
 RUN apt-get update && \
diff --git a/dockerfiles/R/install.R b/dockerfiles/R/install.R
index 0c96907..6c20443 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/R/install.R
+++ b/dockerfiles/R/install.R
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ pkgs <- c(
   "DECIPHER",
   "digest",
   "biomformat",
-  "optparse"
+  "optparse",
+  "yaml"
 )
 
 # check that desired packages are available