diff --git a/R/DESCRIPTION b/R/DESCRIPTION
index 61fab3a..777c135 100644
--- a/R/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/R/DESCRIPTION
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Imports:
     ggplot2,
     grid,
     methods,
+    RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1),
     rstan (>= 2.18.1),
     rstantools (>= 2.0.0),
     scales,
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ License: MIT + file LICENSE
 LinkingTo: 
     BH (>= 1.66.0),
     Rcpp (>= 0.12.0),
+    RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1),
     RcppEigen (>= 0.3.3.3.0),
     rstan (>= 2.18.1),
     StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)
diff --git a/R/NAMESPACE b/R/NAMESPACE
index 4cbc600..2597f77 100644
--- a/R/NAMESPACE
+++ b/R/NAMESPACE
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ export(predictive_samples)
 export(prophet)
 export(prophet_plot_components)
 import(Rcpp)
+import(RcppParallel, except = LdFlags)
 import(rlang)
 importFrom(dplyr,"%>%")
 useDynLib(prophet, .registration = TRUE)
diff --git a/R/R/prophet.R b/R/R/prophet.R
index e9e696a..f8e249e 100644
--- a/R/R/prophet.R
+++ b/R/R/prophet.R
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ globalVariables(c(
 #' @export
 #' @importFrom dplyr "%>%"
 #' @import Rcpp
+#' @rawNamespace import(RcppParallel, except = LdFlags)
 #' @import rlang
 #' @useDynLib prophet, .registration = TRUE
 prophet <- function(df = NULL,