diff --git a/tests/testrmd.R b/tests/testrmd.R
index a3c8adf8bb..23db4e59b6 100644
--- a/tests/testrmd.R
+++ b/tests/testrmd.R
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # only run this test on CI platforms
-if (.Platform$OS.type == 'unix' && !isTRUE(as.logical(Sys.getenv("CI"))) && rmarkdown::pandoc_available()) {
+if (.Platform$OS.type == 'unix' && isTRUE(as.logical(Sys.getenv("CI"))) && rmarkdown::pandoc_available()) {
 
   # test if Word documents can be rendered with a specified intermediate dir
   # (https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/1431)