diff --git a/automation/src/test/scala/org/broadinstitute/dsde/workbench/leonardo/NotebookRKernelSpec.scala b/automation/src/test/scala/org/broadinstitute/dsde/workbench/leonardo/NotebookRKernelSpec.scala
index 37ff2fd9595..b2d56b670ee 100644
--- a/automation/src/test/scala/org/broadinstitute/dsde/workbench/leonardo/NotebookRKernelSpec.scala
+++ b/automation/src/test/scala/org/broadinstitute/dsde/workbench/leonardo/NotebookRKernelSpec.scala
@@ -101,6 +101,14 @@ class NotebookRKernelSpec extends ClusterFixtureSpec {
       }
     }
 
+    "should have tidyverse automatically installed" in { clusterFixture =>
+      withWebDriver { implicit driver =>
+        withNewNotebook(clusterFixture.cluster, RKernel) { notebookPage =>
+          notebookPage.executeCell(""""tidyverse" %in% installed.packages()""") shouldBe Some("TRUE")
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/jupyter-docker/Dockerfile b/jupyter-docker/Dockerfile
index 42084d80787..cc7a86f3d70 100644
--- a/jupyter-docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/jupyter-docker/Dockerfile
@@ -203,19 +203,14 @@ RUN apt-get update \
     libxml2-dev
 
 RUN R -e 'install.packages(c( \
-    "repr",  \
     "IRdisplay",  \
     "evaluate",  \
-    "crayon",  \
     "pbdZMQ",  \
     "devtools",  \
     "uuid",  \
-    "digest",  \
-    "ggplot2",  \
-    "dplyr",  \
-    "tidyr",  \
     "reshape2",  \
-    "bigrquery"),  \
+    "bigrquery",  \
+    "tidyverse"), \
     repos="https://cran.mtu.edu")' \
  && R -e 'devtools::install_github("IRkernel/IRkernel")' \
  && R -e 'IRkernel::installspec(user=FALSE)' \