diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c86c1f538c64962c2a9cd8ff7706a1300c5efffb..5f430ce9cb4cf7b44e4e0e96a072b6db80afb702 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -14,11 +14,6 @@ before_script:
   - R -e "BiocManager::install('DESeq2', update = FALSE)" 
   - R -e 'install.packages(setdiff(desc::desc()$get_deps()$package, c(installed.packages(), "R")));'
 
-devtools-check:
-  stage: build
-  script:
-    - R -e 'devtools::check()'
-
 pages:
   stage: build
   script: