diff --git a/.github/workflows/r_ubuntu.yaml b/.github/workflows/r_ubuntu.yaml
index 9c47bf97..265fb1a7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/r_ubuntu.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/r_ubuntu.yaml
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install scipy==1.12.0
           pip install flair
+          pip install gensim
 
       - name: Remove Python cache files
         run: find . -name '*.pyc' -delete