diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a376a82..bede270 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,35 +1,41 @@
-Package: rtika
 Type: Package
-Title: R Interface to 'Apache Tika' 
-Version: 2.0.0
+Package: rtika
+Title: R Interface to 'Apache Tika'
+Version: 2.0.0.9000
 Authors@R: c(
-    person(given = "Sasha", family = "Goodman", email="goodmansasha@gmail.com", role=c("aut","cre") ), 
-    person(given = "The Apache Software Foundation", role=c("aut","cph") ),
-    person(given = "Julia", family = "Silge", role = c("rev"), comment = "Reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/191/"),
-    person(given = "David",family = "Gohel", role = c("rev"), comment = "Reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/191/")
- )
+    person("Sasha", "Goodman", , "goodmansasha@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
+    person("The Apache Software Foundation", role = c("aut", "cph")),
+    person("Julia", "Silge", role = "rev",
+           comment = "Reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/191/"),
+    person("David", "Gohel", role = "rev",
+           comment = "Reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/191/")
+  )
 Maintainer: Sasha Goodman <goodmansasha@gmail.com>
+Description: Extract text or metadata from over a thousand file types,
+    using Apache Tika <https://tika.apache.org/>. Get either plain text or
+    structured XHTML content.
+License: Apache License 2.0 | file LICENSE
+URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/rtika/, https://github.com/ropensci/rtika/
+BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/rtika/issues/
+Depends: 
+    R (>= 3.5.0)
 Imports: 
+    backports,
     curl,
-    sys (>= 2.1),
+    digest,
     stats,
-    utils, 
-    rappdirs,
-    digest
+    sys (>= 2.1),
+    utils
 Suggests: 
+    covr,
     jsonlite,
-    xml2,
-    testthat,
     knitr,
+    magrittr,
     rmarkdown,
-    covr,
-    magrittr
-License: Apache License 2.0 | file LICENSE
-SystemRequirements: Java (>=8)
-Description: Extract text or metadata from over a thousand file types, using Apache Tika <https://tika.apache.org/>. Get either plain text or structured XHTML content. 
-Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
+    testthat,
+    xml2
+VignetteBuilder: 
+    knitr
 Encoding: UTF-8
-RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
-URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/rtika/, https://github.com/ropensci/rtika/
-BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/rtika/issues/
-VignetteBuilder: knitr
+RoxygenNote: 7.2.0.9000
+SystemRequirements: Java (>=8)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4b2c4be..aa0e05b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# rtika (development version)
+
+* Use tools::R_user_dir() instead of rappdirs.
+
 rtika 2.0.0 (2021-08-05)
 ========================= 
 
@@ -63,8 +67,7 @@ rtika 1.19.1 (2018-07-08)
 ### MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
 
   * The install_tika() function now gets the Tika 1.18 release that came out 2018-04-24, instead of the 1.18 development version.
-  
-  rtika 0.1.7 (2018-03-08)
+rtika 0.1.7 (2018-03-08)
 ========================= 
 
 ### MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
diff --git a/R/install_tika.R b/R/install_tika.R
index 4f4979e..8411d09 100644
--- a/R/install_tika.R
+++ b/R/install_tika.R
@@ -11,10 +11,9 @@
 #' @param url Optional url to a particular location of the tika app. Setting this to any character string overrides downloading from random mirrors.
 #'
 #' @return Logical if the installation was successful.
-#' @examples
-#' \donttest{
+#' @examplesIf interactive()
 #' install_tika()
-#' }
+#' 
 #' @section Details:
 #' The default settings of \code{install_tika()} should typically be left as they are.
 #'
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@
 #' You can also enter a value for \code{url} directly to override this.
 #'
 #' It will download into a directory determined
-#' by the \code{rappdirs::user_data_dir()} function,
+#' by \code{tools::R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data")},
 #' specific to the operating system.
 #'
 #' If \code{tika()} is stopping with an error compalining about the \code{jar},
@@ -38,12 +37,11 @@
 #' and want to remove the Tika App \code{jar} also,
 #' run:
 #'
-#'  \code{unlink(rappdirs::user_data_dir('rtika'), recursive = TRUE)}
+#'  \code{unlink(tools::R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data"), recursive = TRUE)}
 #'
 #' Alternately, navigate to the install folder and delete it manually.
-#' It is the file path returned by \code{rappdirs::user_data_dir('rtika')}.
-#' The path is OS specific, and explained here:
-#' https://github.com/r-lib/rappdirs .
+#' It is the file path returned by \code{tools::R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data")}.
+#' The path is OS specific.
 #' 
 #' @section Distribution:
 #' Tika is distributed under the Apache License Version 2.0,
@@ -69,7 +67,7 @@ install_tika <- function(version = "2.0.0",
      # Get user directory  -------------------
      user_data_dir <-
     normalizePath(
-      rappdirs::user_data_dir("rtika"),
+      R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data"),
       mustWork = FALSE
     ) # tools::R_user_dir works on R > 4
 
diff --git a/R/tika.R b/R/tika.R
index 3b99261..b092cb2 100644
--- a/R/tika.R
+++ b/R/tika.R
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ tika <- function(input,
     # (4) NEWS.md to the verision
 
   # When updating the package, run these functions in order:
-    # make sure required packages are installed including: devtools, rappdirs, knitr,rmarkdown, pkgdown
+    # make sure required packages are installed including: devtools, knitr,rmarkdown, pkgdown
     # devtools::document() # sets up NAMESPACE and .Rd documentation files to match function
     # Use Rstudio's "Build" > "Install and Restart" 
     # if necessary, run "rtika::install_tika()" to update the .jar
diff --git a/R/tika_jar.R b/R/tika_jar.R
index f035ec0..f393075 100644
--- a/R/tika_jar.R
+++ b/R/tika_jar.R
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #' @export
 tika_jar <- function() {
   path <- file.path(
-    rappdirs::user_data_dir("rtika"),
+    R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data"),
     paste0("tika-app.jar")
   )
 
diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index b246623..5d4dd4e 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ rtika::install_tika()
     tika_version <- tryCatch(
       as.character(readLines(
         file.path(
-          rappdirs::user_data_dir("rtika"),
+          R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data"),
           "tika-app-version.txt"
         )
       )),
@@ -113,3 +113,7 @@ rtika::install_tika()
     }
   }
 }
+
+.onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) {
+  backports::import(pkgname, c("R_user_dir"), force = TRUE)
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/man/install_tika.Rd b/man/install_tika.Rd
index f546a0f..dd77b4a 100644
--- a/man/install_tika.Rd
+++ b/man/install_tika.Rd
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ it tries the archive at \code{http://archive.apache.org/dist/tika/}.
 You can also enter a value for \code{url} directly to override this.
 
 It will download into a directory determined
-by the \code{rappdirs::user_data_dir()} function,
+by \code{tools::R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data")},
 specific to the operating system.
 
 If \code{tika()} is stopping with an error compalining about the \code{jar},
@@ -61,12 +61,11 @@ If you are uninstalling the entire \code{rtika} package
 and want to remove the Tika App \code{jar} also,
 run:
 
- \code{unlink(rappdirs::user_data_dir('rtika'), recursive = TRUE)}
+ \code{unlink(tools::R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data"), recursive = TRUE)}
 
 Alternately, navigate to the install folder and delete it manually.
-It is the file path returned by \code{rappdirs::user_data_dir('rtika')}.
-The path is OS specific, and explained here:
-https://github.com/r-lib/rappdirs .
+It is the file path returned by \code{tools::R_user_dir("rtika", which = "data")}.
+The path is OS specific.
 }
 
 \section{Distribution}{
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ You can fetch (clone) the large source from GitHub ( https://github.com/apache/t
 }
 
 \examples{
-\donttest{
+\dontshow{if (interactive()) (if (getRversion() >= "3.4") withAutoprint else force)(\{ # examplesIf}
 install_tika()
-}
+\dontshow{\}) # examplesIf}
 }