diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 91701f827..6684c09a0 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ repos:
           - DT
           - forcats
           - grid
+          - logger
           - scales
           - shinyjs
           - shinyTree
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e39a38cae..9fb313038 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Suggests:
     htmlwidgets,
     jsonlite,
     knitr (>= 1.42),
+    logger (>= 0.2.0),
     lattice (>= 0.18-4),
     MASS,
     nestcolor (>= 0.1.0),
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ Config/Needs/verdepcheck: haleyjeppson/ggmosaic, tidyverse/ggplot2,
     tidyverse/tibble, tidyverse/tidyr, tidymodels/broom,
     daattali/colourpicker, daattali/ggExtra, aphalo/ggpmisc, aphalo/ggpp,
     slowkow/ggrepel, baddstats/goftest, gridExtra, ramnathv/htmlwidgets,
-    jeroen/jsonlite, yihui/knitr, deepayan/lattice, MASS,
+    jeroen/jsonlite, yihui/knitr, daroczig/logger, deepayan/lattice, MASS,
     insightsengineering/nestcolor, r-lib/rlang, rstudio/rmarkdown,
     insightsengineering/rtables, tidyverse/rvest, sparkline,
     rstudio/shinytest2, insightsengineering/teal.data, r-lib/testthat,