diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9c15c90a2315f4b6ffd06bb831a44d9f8928f02a..a369da0d952920fe5288d5970a60ed0cb35503f2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Sample .travis.yml for R projects from https://github.com/craigcitro/r-travis
 
-language: c
+language: r
 
 os:
   - osx
@@ -14,16 +14,12 @@ env:
      - BOOTSTRAP_LATEX=""
      - NOT_CRAN="true" 
 
-script: "./travis-tool.sh run_tests"
-
-before_script:
-  - curl -OL http://raw.github.com/craigcitro/r-travis/master/scripts/travis-tool.sh
-  - chmod 755 ./travis-tool.sh
-  - "./travis-tool.sh bootstrap"
-  - "./travis-tool.sh install_deps - ./travis-tool.sh install_r XML RCurl plyr reshape2 lubridate httr knitr xtable testthat"
-
-after_script:
-  - "./travis-tool.sh dump_logs"
+r_packages:
+  - XML
+  - RCurl
+  - plyr
+  - reshape2
+  - lubridate
 
 notifications:
   email: