diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index e8136201fe87f7c98de9009e8e22b993cf60d585..d657787aa8e18028cb5d539f2a629db24ced5f4e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ default:
   stage: check
   script:
   - R -e 'rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args = ifelse(as.logical(Sys.getenv("NOT_CRAN")), "", "--as-cran"), error_on = "warning")'
-  - R -e 'install.packages("airGR", repos = "http://cran.r-project.org")'
+  - R -e 'install.packages(c("microbenchmark", "airGR"), repos = "http://cran.r-project.org")'
   - Rscript tests/scheduled_tests/benchmarkRunModel.R
   - R CMD INSTALL .
   - Rscript tests/scheduled_tests/benchmarkRunModel.R