diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index b17c20297ab32024162dee46940b5bf65d41d310..4b1828ba0745a86928138167e60cd1cbb30f4681 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ default:
     - Rscript -e 'source("tests/testthat/store_examples.R"); StoreRefExampleResults("airGR");'
     - R CMD INSTALL .
     - Rscript -e 'source("tests/testthat/store_examples.R"); StoreTestExampleResults("airGR");'
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - tests/tmp/
+    expire_in: 1 week
 
 .check_not_cran:
   stage: tests
diff --git a/tests/testthat/store_examples.R b/tests/testthat/store_examples.R
index ef3632eae3beb3b6f9e71d1be269942079cae2f8..6a7b8e31a1d6174045718c86a86764692765de6b 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/store_examples.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/store_examples.R
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ StoreRefExampleResults <- function(package, ...) {
 }
 
 StoreTestExampleResults <- function(package, ...) {
-  StoreExampleResults(package = package, path = "tests/tmp/test", ...)
+  StoreExampleResults(
+    package = package,
+    path = file.path("tests/tmp", Sys.getenv("R_VERSION", "test")),
+    ...
+  )
 }
 
 #' Run examples of a package and store the output variables in RDS files for further testing.
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-regression.R b/tests/testthat/test-regression.R
index 1c41c9400214e6e75d34886a7655085f05a63c02..866fcdfece05d0355ead2a23added080592d4730 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-regression.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-regression.R
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ CompareWithRef <- function(refVarFile, testDir, regIgnore) {
   if(is.null(regIgnore) || all(apply(regIgnore, 1, function(x) {!all(x == v)}))) {
     test_that(paste("Compare", v$topic, v$var), {
       skip_on_cran()
-      testVarFile <- paste0("../tmp/test/", file.path(v$topic, v$var), ".rds")
+      testVarFile <- paste0(
+        file.path("../tmp", Sys.getenv("R_VERSION", "test"), v$topic, v$var),
+        ".rds"
+      )
       expect_true(file.exists(testVarFile))
       if(file.exists(testVarFile)) {
         testVar <- readRDS(testVarFile)
@@ -24,8 +27,8 @@ if(dir.exists("../tmp/ref") & dir.exists("../tmp/test")) {
   regIgnoreFile <- "../../.regressionignore2"
   if(file.exists(regIgnoreFile)) {
     regIgnore <- read.table(
-      file = regIgnoreFile, 
-      sep = " ", header = FALSE, skip = 5, col.names = c("topic", "var"), 
+      file = regIgnoreFile,
+      sep = " ", header = FALSE, skip = 5, col.names = c("topic", "var"),
       stringsAsFactors = FALSE
     )
   } else {