diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2ea5ed4b26f8a759c71043436b2b00b00ddb391e..e435e5947f14b323751e88d00702b4a7769e7cb3 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ stages:
 building:
   stage: build
   script:
+    - R -e "install.packages("remotes")"
     - R -e "remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"
     - R -e 'devtools::check()'