diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 4440355a..5e51c94e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 # from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51866926
+# and https://github.com/jangorecki/r.gitlab.ci
 image: rocker/r-base
 gitlab:
    script:
-    - apt-get update
-    - apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends r-cran-testthat r-cran-devtools
-    - R -e "devtools::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"
+    # - apt-get update
+    # - apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends r-cran-testthat r-cran-devtools
+    # - R -e "devtools::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"
+    # - R CMD build . --no-build-vignettes --no-manual
+    # - PKG_FILE_NAME=$(ls -1t *.tar.gz | head -n 1)
+    # - R CMD check "${PKG_FILE_NAME}" --no-manual --as-cran
+    - R -e "install.packages('backports', 'curl', 'crayon', 'data', 'dplyr', 'hms', 'knitr', 'rlang', 'rvest', 'tidyr', 'xml2', 'covr', 'ggplot2', 'rmarkdown', 'rstudioapi', 'testthat')"
     - R CMD build . --no-build-vignettes --no-manual
     - PKG_FILE_NAME=$(ls -1t *.tar.gz | head -n 1)
-    - R CMD check "${PKG_FILE_NAME}" --no-manual --as-cran
+    - R CMD check "${PKG_FILE_NAME}" --no-build-vignettes --no-manual --as-cran
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c5c788bf..e9f5d84b 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ This is the latest **development version**. Although it may contain bugfixes and
 
 Development Test | Result | Reference
 --- | :---: | ---
-All functions checked on Linux and macOS | [(click view)](https://gitlab.com/msberends/AMR/pipelines) | GitLab [[ref 1]](https://gitlab.com/msberends/AMR/pipelines) 
+All functions checked on Linux and macOS | [![pipeline status](https://gitlab.com/msberends/AMR/badges/master/pipeline.svg)](https://gitlab.com/msberends/AMR/commits/master) | GitLab [[ref 1]](https://gitlab.com/msberends/AMR/pipelines) 
 All functions checked on Windows | [![AppVeyor_Build](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/gitlab/msberends/AMR?branch=master&svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/msberends/amr-svxon) | Appveyor Systems Inc. [[ref 2]](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/msberends/amr-svxon)
 Percentage of syntax lines checked | [![Code_Coverage](https://codecov.io/gl/msberends/AMR/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gl/msberends/AMR) | Codecov LLC [[ref 3]](https://codecov.io/gl/msberends/AMR)