diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0e3fd01..2150f07 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: mobileRNA
 Type: Package
 Title: mobileRNA: Investigate the RNA mobilome & population-scale changes
-Version: 0.99.18
+Version: 0.99.19
 Authors@R: c(person("Katie", "Jeynes-Cupper", 
     email = "kej031@student.bham.ac.uk", role = c("aut", "cre"), 
      comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0000-1350-1371")),
diff --git a/R/RNAsequences.R b/R/RNAsequences.R
index 0487cc0..b725b1e 100644
--- a/R/RNAsequences.R
+++ b/R/RNAsequences.R
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ RNAsequences <- function(data, original = FALSE, method = c("consensus", "set"),
     stop("data is missing. data must be an object of class matrix, data.frame, 
           DataFrame")
   }
+  if (base::missing(method) || method %in% c("consensus", "set")) {
+    stop("Please specify the method parameter, must be either `consensus` or`set`. ")
+  }
   df <- data %>% # select only columns with RNA seqs, remove columns with only NA values
     dplyr::select(dplyr::starts_with("MajorRNA")) %>%
     dplyr::select(-dplyr::where(~all(. == "N")))
diff --git a/inst/NEWS.md b/inst/NEWS.md
index a1761d0..0852a8c 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS.md
+++ b/inst/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# mobileRNA 0.99.19
+
+* Missing connective in RNAfeatures when using repeats variable.
+* Added additional check for RNAsequences methods. 
+
 # mobileRNA 0.99.17
 
 * Corrected ORCID references for authors