diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
index 72d294ce..e9592869 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,100 +1,12 @@
+
 on: push
 
 name: Continuous Benchmarks
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
-
-
-    name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
-
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        config:
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: 'release'}
-          # fails: https://github.com/luukvdmeer/sfnetworks/pull/64/checks?check_run_id=798178450
-          # - {os: ubuntu-20.04, r: 'release'}
-
-    env:
-      R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS: true
-      CRAN: ${{ matrix.config.cran }}
-
+    runs-on: macOS-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
-        with:
-          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@master
-
-      - name: Brew and macOS config
-        if: runner.os == 'macOS'
-        run: |
-          brew install pkg-config
-          brew install udunits
-          brew install gdal
-          cat <<EOT >> .Renviron
-          PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
-          PROJ_LIB=/usr/local/opt/proj/share/proj/
-          # for installing XML package from source
-          XML_CONFIG=/usr/local/opt/libxml2/bin/xml2-config
-          EOT
-          cat <<EOT >> .Rprofile
-          r <- getOption("repos")
-          r["CRAN"] <- "https://cran.rstudio.com"
-          r["rccp_drat"] <- "https://RcppCore.github.io/drat"
-          config_args <- c("sf" = "--with-proj-lib=/usr/local/lib/", "rgdal" = "--with-proj-lib=/usr/local/lib/ --with-proj-include=/usr/local/include/")
-          options(configure.args = config_args,
-                  install.packages.compile.from.source = "yes",
-                  repos = r)
-          EOT
-
-      - name: Query dependencies
-        run: |
-          install.packages('remotes')
-          saveRDS(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE), "depends.Rds", version = 2)
-        shell: Rscript {0}
-
-      - name: Cache R packages
-        if: runner.os != 'Windows'
-        uses: actions/cache@v1
-        with:
-          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-${{ hashFiles('depends.Rds') }}
-          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-
-
-      - name: Install system dependencies
-        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
-        env:
-          RHUB_PLATFORM: linux-x86_64-ubuntu-gcc
-        run: |
-          Rscript -e "remotes::install_github('r-hub/sysreqs')"
-          sysreqs=$(Rscript -e "cat(sysreqs::sysreq_commands('DESCRIPTION'))")
-          sudo -s eval "$sysreqs"
-
-          # install spatial dependencies
-          sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install \
-            libudunits2-dev \
-            libgdal-dev \
-            libgeos-dev \
-            libproj-dev
-          git config --global user.email "rob00x@gmail.com"
-          git config --global user.name "Robin Lovelace"
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          library(remotes)
-          deps <- readRDS("depends.Rds")
-          deps[["installed"]] <- vapply(deps[["package"]], remotes:::local_sha, character(1))
-          update(deps)
-          remotes::install_cran("rcmdcheck")
-        shell: Rscript {0}
-
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@master
 
@@ -103,7 +15,9 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'jsonlite'))" -e "remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"  -e "remotes::install_github('r-lib/bench')"
+          Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes'))"
+          Rscript -e "remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"
+          Rscript -e "remotes::install_github("r-lib/bench")"
           R CMD INSTALL .
       - name: Fetch existing benchmarks
         run: Rscript -e 'bench::cb_fetch()'