diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 21b971fb3eabeb862465c3a6359ee45ac5f1f988..52d952f765144a8f7f0bb5b12f66c8372851f82e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ default:
   tags: [docker]
   image: r-base:latest
   before_script:
-    - Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("remotes", "dplyr", "knitr"))'
+    - Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("remotes", "dplyr", "knitr", "readr"))'
     - Rscript -e 'remotes::install_gitlab("HYCAR-Hydro/airgr@sd", host = "gitlab.irstea.fr")'
     - R CMD build ../griwrm