diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index f5253e2..b3e9ac2 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 ^pkgdown$
 ^cran-comments\.md$
 ^build-vignettes\.md$
+^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
diff --git a/CRAN-SUBMISSION b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75bbd94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Version: 0.1
+Date: 2026-05-11 12:16:10 UTC
+SHA: 6c1e75f6e2bab1733bfb345cbd8feb6e942b0516
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 953b9b0..63fa531 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 - Install from [CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=coupling) with:
 
 ``` r
-install.packages("coupling", dep = TRUE)
+install.packages("coupling", dependencies = TRUE)
 ```
 
 - Install binary version from [R-universe](https://stscl.r-universe.dev/coupling) with:
@@ -36,18 +36,16 @@ install.packages("coupling", dep = TRUE)
 install.packages("coupling",
                  repos = c("https://stscl.r-universe.dev",
                            "https://cloud.r-project.org"),
-                 dep = TRUE)
+                 dependencies = TRUE)
 ```
 
 - Install from source code on [GitHub](https://github.com/stscl/coupling) with:
 
 ``` r
-if (!requireNamespace("devtools")) {
-    install.packages("devtools")
+if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE)) {
+    install.packages("pak")
 }
-devtools::install_github("stscl/coupling",
-                         build_vignettes = TRUE,
-                         dep = TRUE)
+pak::pak("stscl/coupling", dependencies = TRUE)
 ```
 
 ## References