diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 9fbc720d28835f248a718feac9d264ac4b895e32..726e938cbd2267c45bd1271cfc1e1eca082dd695 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ stages:
 building:
   stage: build
   script:
-    - R -e "install.packages("remotes")"
     - R -e "remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"
     - R -e 'devtools::check()'