diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 33d6ae16..334b33c7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 # from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51866926
 # and https://github.com/jangorecki/r.gitlab.ci
+
 image: rocker/r-base
-gitlab:
+
+stages:
+  - build
+  - deploy
+
+linux job:
+  stage:
+    - build
    script:
     - apt-get update
     # install dependencies for package
@@ -13,6 +21,27 @@ gitlab:
     - 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-build-vignettes --no-manual --as-cran
+
+osx job:
+  stage:
+    - build
+  tags:
+    - osx
+  script:
+    - R -e 'devtools::install_deps(dependencies = c("Depends", "Imports", "Suggests"))'
+    # remove vignettes folder and get VignetteBuilder field out of DESCRIPTION file
+    - rm -rf vignettes
+    - R -e 'd <- read.dcf("DESCRIPTION"); d[, colnames(d) == "VignetteBuilder"] <- NA; write.dcf(d, "DESCRIPTION")'
+    - 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-build-vignettes --no-manual --as-cran
+
+
+coverage job:
+  stage:
+    - deploy
+  script:
     # update code coverage
     - apt-get install --yes git
     - R -e "covr::codecov(token = '50ffa0aa-fee0-4f8b-a11d-8c7edc6d32ca')"
+  when: on_success