diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2752cf9..896f700 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ If you want to include it as part of your `dplyr` / `magrittr` pipeline, you can
 ```R
 library(dplyr)
 iris %>%
-  tbl_df() %>%
+  as_tibble() %>%
   filter( Sepal.Width > 3 ) %>%
   rpivotTable()
 ```
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_data.R b/tests/testthat/test_data.R
index 0d96397..5175d63 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_data.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_data.R
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ test_that("data is not changed",{
     rpivotTable( data.frame(x=1:10,y=LETTERS[1:10]) )$x$data
     , data.frame(x=1:10,y=LETTERS[1:10]))
   expect_is(
-    rpivotTable(tbl_df(iris))$x$data
+    rpivotTable(as_tibble(iris))$x$data
     , "tbl_df"
   )
   expect_identical(
diff --git a/vignettes/rpivotTableIntroduction.Rmd b/vignettes/rpivotTableIntroduction.Rmd
index 6726866..9ca257c 100644
--- a/vignettes/rpivotTableIntroduction.Rmd
+++ b/vignettes/rpivotTableIntroduction.Rmd
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Or if you want to include it as part of your `dplyr` / `magrittr` pipeline, you
   library(dplyr)
   # )
 iris %>%
-tbl_df %>%
+as_tibble %>%
 filter( Sepal.Width > 3 & Sepal.Length > 5 ) %>%
 rpivotTable(rows="Sepal.Width",  rendererName="Treemap")
 ```