diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2fae0ff7..de8e0d7e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -4,9 +4,15 @@ image: rocker/r-base
 gitlab:
    script:
     - apt-get update
+    # install dependencies for package
     - apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends r-cran-xml2 r-cran-testthat r-cran-devtools
     - R -e 'devtools::install_deps(dependencies = c("Depends", "Imports", "Suggests"))'
     - R CMD build . --no-build-vignettes --no-manual
+    # 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")'
     - PKG_FILE_NAME=$(ls -1t *.tar.gz | head -n 1)
-    - R CMD check "${PKG_FILE_NAME}" --no-build-vignettes --no-manual --as-cran
+    - R CMD check "${PKG_FILE_NAME}" --no-manual --as-cran
+    # update code coverage
+    - apt-get install git
     - R -e "covr::codecov(token = '50ffa0aa-fee0-4f8b-a11d-8c7edc6d32ca')"