diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f44562e86a99db4ff2c4c4893081f0c97846aad5..8d6232076c5fe3d553587184c56bce8df8a7b4e9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 language: c
 
+env:
+   global:
+     - CRAN: http://cran.rstudio.com
+     - R_BUILD_ARGS="--no-build-vignettes --no-manual"
+     - R_CHECK_ARGS="--no-build-vignettes --no-manual --as-cran"
+     - BOOTSTRAP_LATEX=""
+
 script: "./travis-tool.sh run_tests"
 
 before_script: