diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index ae1c65d84b3d7f87bc44acc7046f85b27af7326a..9da68d6296e4942d9b3f868112baf9a48f606c1a 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     - merge_requests
     - tags
   script:
-    - R -e 'devtools::install_deps()'
+    - R -e 'devtools::install_deps(quiet = TRUE)'
     - R -e 'devtools::check(error_on = "warning")'
 
 # latest version of the previous major R release