diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4fe0e75df4e89d51a15ad56ba48095c91eca9335..592c877cb3445f570a9342e7d529b949be7be42d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-
-```{r setup, include=FALSE}
-knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
-```
-
 # VarExp
 
 The R package **VarExp** provides functions for the estimating of the percentage of phenotypic variance explained by genetic effects, interaction effects or jointly by both effects. This suite of functions are useful for meta-analysis designs where pooling individual genotype data is challenging. A pre-print article related to this work is available [here](bioRkiv link)