diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 84a7da5..1033d19 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Type: Package
 Package: glmmfields
 Title: Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Robust Random Fields
     for Spatiotemporal Modeling
-Version: 0.1.5
+Version: 0.1.6
 Authors@R:
     c(person(given = c("Sean", "C."),
              family = "Anderson",
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Imports:
     loo (>= 2.0.0),
     mvtnorm,
     nlme,
+    RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1),
     reshape2,
     rstan (>= 2.18.2),
     rstantools (>= 2.1.1),
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index da87add..9c38d20 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export(tidy)
 import(Rcpp)
 import(methods)
 import(rstantools)
+importFrom(RcppParallel,RcppParallelLibs)
 importFrom(assertthat,assert_that)
 importFrom(assertthat,is.count)
 importFrom(assertthat,is.number)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 01acd5b..dcd05cb 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# glmmfields 0.1.6
+
+* Add back RcppParallel as an import
+
 # glmmfields 0.1.5
 
 * Fully delegate installation to rstantools (#15)
diff --git a/R/fitting.R b/R/fitting.R
index df24ba6..b014167 100644
--- a/R/fitting.R
+++ b/R/fitting.R
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
 #' @importFrom stats dist model.frame model.matrix model.response rnorm runif model.offset
 #' @importFrom assertthat assert_that is.count is.number
 #' @importFrom stats gaussian na.omit
+#' @importFrom RcppParallel RcppParallelLibs
 #'
 #' @examples
 #' \donttest{