diff --git a/.github/workflows/deps.yml b/.github/workflows/deps.yml
index 7e3a3f5..287507a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deps.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deps.yml
@@ -46,9 +46,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install package dependencies 📄
         run: |
           if (file.exists(${{ env.dep_path }})) {
-              yaml::yaml.load(readLines(${{ env.dep_path }}))$dependencies |>
-              sapply(function(x) x$repo) |>
-              pak::pak(dependencies = TRUE, ask = FALSE, upgrade = FALSE)
-            }
+              repos <- yaml::yaml.load(readLines(${{ env.dep_path }}))$dependencies |>
+              sapply(function(x) x$repo) 
+              if(repos |> length() > 0) {
+                repos |>
+                pak::pak(dependencies = TRUE, ask = FALSE, upgrade = FALSE)
+              }
+          }
         shell: Rscript {0}