diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index dd7e11e89b..f27b73b8f6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@ before_install:
 
 r_packages:
   - drat      # used in .ci/deploy.sh to publish tar.gz to github.io/Rdatatable/data.table
-  - devtools  # explicitly named temp fix for #2801
-  # - covr    # used for code coverage reports in github pull requests
-
-r_github_packages: r-lib/covr    # remove and reinstate covr line above when 3.3.1 is released on CRAN; see covr issue #391
+  - covr
 
 before_script:
   - echo "Revision:" $TRAVIS_COMMIT >> ./DESCRIPTION