diff --git a/integration_tests/Rprofile b/integration_tests/Rprofile
index 104c5c2..8ac4dd2 100644
--- a/integration_tests/Rprofile
+++ b/integration_tests/Rprofile
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+.First <- function(){
+    .libPaths("/root/rpackages")
+}
+
 local({
     r <- getOption("repos")
     r["CRAN"] <- "http://localhost:8080/repository/cran-proxy"
diff --git a/integration_tests/tests/cran.bats b/integration_tests/tests/cran.bats
index cf2e5b4..ad42d81 100644
--- a/integration_tests/tests/cran.bats
+++ b/integration_tests/tests/cran.bats
@@ -1,20 +1,31 @@
+setup() {
+    mkdir /root/rpackages
+}
+
+teardown() {
+    rm -rf /root/rpackages
+}
+
 @test "Install data.table" {
-    Rscript -e 'install.packages("data.table")'
+    run Rscript -e 'install.packages("data.table")'
+    [[ "$output" == *"package ‘data.table’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked"* ]]
 }
 
 @test "Install archived version of data.table" {
-    Rscript -e 'packagename <- "data.table"
+    run Rscript -e 'packagename <- "data.table"
         version <- "1.13.0" # or 1.12.0
         packageurl <- paste0(contrib.url(getOption("repos")), "/Archive/", packagename, "/", packagename, "_", version, ".tar.gz")
         install.packages(packageurl, repos=NULL, type="source")
     '
+    [[ "$output" == *"package ‘data.table’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked"* ]]
 }
 
 @test "Install archived version of data.table using remotes" {
-    Rscript -e '
+    run Rscript -e '
         install.packages("remotes")
         remotes::install_version("data.table", version = "1.13.0")
     '
+    [[ "$output" == *"package ‘data.table’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked"* ]]
 }
 
 @test "Install ggplot2" {
diff --git a/integration_tests/tests/pypi.bats b/integration_tests/tests/pypi.bats
index 9435c5a..9188d73 100644
--- a/integration_tests/tests/pypi.bats
+++ b/integration_tests/tests/pypi.bats
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
+setup () {
+    python3 -m venv /root/venv
+    . /root/venv/bin/activate
+}
+
+teardown() {
+    deactivate
+    rm -rf /root/venv
+}
+
 @test "Install numpy" {
-    python3 -m venv ./venv
-    . ./venv/bin/activate
     pip install numpy
 }
 
 @test "Install mkdocs" {
     bats_require_minimum_version 1.5.0
-    python3 -m venv ./venv
-    . ./venv/bin/activate
     run ! pip install mkdocs
     [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
     [[ "$output" == *"HTTP error 403"* ]]