diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9a3520c..67ea754 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: datacutr
 Type: Package
 Title: SDTM Datacut
-Version: 0.2.2
+Version: 0.2.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Tim", "Barnett", email = "timothy.barnett@roche.com", role = c("cph","aut", "cre")), 
     person("Nathan", "Rees", email = "nathan.rees@roche.com", role = c("aut")), 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1880914..12c320a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# datacutr 0.2.2.1
+
+## Updates of Existing Functions
+- `read_out` updated to control location of outputs of the read-out file
+
 # datacutr 0.2.2
 
 ## Updates of Existing Functions
diff --git a/R/read_out.R b/R/read_out.R
index abd6cf3..f2b4c48 100644
--- a/R/read_out.R
+++ b/R/read_out.R
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ used."
       path = "/read-out/read_out.Rmd"
     ),
     output_file = paste0("datacut_", format(Sys.time(), "%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S", ".html")),
-    output_dir = out_path
+    output_dir = out_path,
+    intermediates_dir = out_path,
+    knit_root_dir = out_path
   )
 }