diff --git a/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml
index 9f81ca991..b96e8477f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml
@@ -48,17 +48,12 @@ jobs:
             ${{ runner.os }}-r-facebook-survey-
       - name: Install R dependencies
         run: |
-          if ( !require("readr") || packageVersion("readr") != "1.4.0" ) {
-            install.packages("devtools")
-            devtools::install_version("readr", version = "1.4.0")
-          }
-
           if ( !require("remotes") ) {
             install.packages("remotes")
           }
           remotes::update_packages(c("rcmdcheck", "mockr", "remotes"), upgrade="always")
           dependency_list <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies=TRUE)
-          remotes::update_packages(dependency_list$package[dependency_list$package != "readr"], upgrade="always")
+          remotes::update_packages(dependency_list$package, upgrade="always")
         shell: Rscript {0}
       - name: Check
         run: |
diff --git a/facebook/Dockerfile b/facebook/Dockerfile
index d78599349..48ef74e4e 100644
--- a/facebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/facebook/Dockerfile
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ RUN install2.r --error \
     data.table \
     roxygen2 \
     Rcpp \
-    BH
+    BH \
+    readr
 
-RUN R --no-restore --no-save -e 'devtools::install_version("readr", version="1.4.0")'
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -qq -y \
     python3-venv \
     sshpass \
diff --git a/facebook/delphiFacebook/DESCRIPTION b/facebook/delphiFacebook/DESCRIPTION
index f9c2a08c4..ebc5011e8 100644
--- a/facebook/delphiFacebook/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/facebook/delphiFacebook/DESCRIPTION
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Depends:
 Imports:
     stats,
     rlang,
-    readr (<= 1.4.0),
+    readr,
     dplyr,
     stringi,
     jsonlite,