diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 35821ed2..1e409b81 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Or the developement version with:
 
 ```{r gh-installation, eval = FALSE}
 # install.packages("devtools")
-devtools::install_github("eliocamp/metR")
+devtools::install_github("eliocamp/metR@dev")
 ```
 
 If you need to read netcdf files, you might need to install the netcdf and udunits2 libraries. On Ubuntu and it's derivatives this can be done by typing 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3bb0d62d..06ea8894 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Or the developement version with:
 
 ``` r
 # install.packages("devtools")
-devtools::install_github("eliocamp/metR")
+devtools::install_github("eliocamp/metR@dev")
 ```
 
 If you need to read netcdf files, you might need to install the netcdf