diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c9e7f1dd..1a6cb8ed 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ R 3:
     stage: build
     allow_failure: false
     script:
-    - Rscript -e "options()" # to check for variables to circumvent testthat::skip_on_cran
     - apt-get update
     # install dependencies for package
     - apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends libxml2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev zlib1g-dev
@@ -28,9 +27,10 @@ R 3:
     - 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
+    - Rscript -e "options()" # to check for variables to circumvent testthat::skip_on_cran
     # code coverage
     - apt-get install --yes git
-    - Rscript -e 'cc <- covr::covr::package_coverage(); covr::codecov(coverage = cc, token = "50ffa0aa-fee0-4f8b-a11d-8c7edc6d32ca"); cat("Code coverage:", covr::percent_coverage(cc))'
+    - Rscript -e 'cc <- covr::package_coverage(); covr::codecov(coverage = cc, token = "50ffa0aa-fee0-4f8b-a11d-8c7edc6d32ca"); cat("Code coverage:", covr::percent_coverage(cc))'
     coverage: '/Code coverage: \d+\.\d+/'
     artifacts:
       paths: