diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index a4da5f9040..1fd91daae9 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ install:
   # Install maven and dependencies
   - ps: .\dev\appveyor-install-dependencies.ps1
   # Required package for R unit tests
-  - cmd: R -e "install.packages(c('knitr', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
-  - cmd: R -e "packageVersion('knitr'); packageVersion('rmarkdown'); packageVersion('testthat'); packageVersion('e1071'); packageVersion('survival'); packageVersion('arrow')"
+  - cmd: Rscript -e "install.packages(c('knitr', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
+  - cmd: Rscript -e "pkg_list <- as.data.frame(installed.packages()[,c(1, 3:4)]); pkg_list[is.na(pkg_list$Priority), 1:2, drop = FALSE]"
 
 build_script:
   # '-Djna.nosys=true' is required to avoid kernel32.dll load failure.