diff --git a/base_image/install_packages.R b/base_image/install_packages.R
index f8a828613258a9c7d3ba4439463f513bac78e940..21e0f9e7e51ce125bf49d76b83a13da52df75a8e 100644
--- a/base_image/install_packages.R
+++ b/base_image/install_packages.R
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
+## Set option to remove interaction requirement when installing packages
+## that need compilation
+
+options(install.packages.compile.from.source="always")
+
 ####----Primary libraries
 install.packages(c("FDboost","gamboostLSS","stringr","rpart","ranger",
                    "nimble","doParallel","foreach","pdp",
-                   "betareg","iml","MCMCvis"))
+                   "betareg","iml","MCMCvis", "caret"))