diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 688c64a0..bd90d88e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@
 # R for travis: see documentation at https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/r
 
 language: r
+
 r:
   - oldrel
   - release
   - devel
+
+env:
+  global:
+    - LINTR_COMMENT_BOT=false
+
 sudo: false
+
 warnings_are_errors: false # set to true: This option forces all WARNINGS from R CMD check
   # to become build failures (default true). This is especially helpful when preparing
   # your package for submission to CRAN
+
 cache: packages
+
 after_success:
   # code coverage but exclude all SOILWAT2 submodule files in scr/
   - Rscript -e 'covr::coveralls(line_exclusions = as.list(file.path("src", list.files("src", recursive = TRUE))))'