diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 726e938cbd2267c45bd1271cfc1e1eca082dd695..6664f78314abb7955a34a4c1db66d48259cd56c3 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-image: rocker/tidyvers
+image: rocker/rstudio
 stages:
 - build
 - test
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ stages:
 building:
   stage: build
   script:
+    - Rscript -e 'install.packages("remote")'
     - R -e "remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"
     - R -e 'devtools::check()'