diff --git a/.github/workflows/rcmdcheck.yml b/.github/workflows/rcmdcheck.yml
index 7e48b457a..d0f0b83e4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rcmdcheck.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rcmdcheck.yml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
           reticulate::use_condaenv('r-reticulate')
           install.packages('keras')
           keras::install_keras(extra_packages = c('IPython', 'requests', 'certifi', 'urllib3', 'tensorflow-hub', 'tabnet'), method = "conda")
-          reticulate::py_install(c('torch', 'pycox'), pip = TRUE)
+          reticulate::py_install(c('torch', 'pycox'), method = "conda")
         shell: Rscript {0}
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2