diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-rix.R b/tests/testthat/test-rix.R
index 88bda9e2..62fb8878 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-rix.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-rix.R
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 testthat::test_that("rix(), ide is 'rstudio', Linux", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   skip_if(Sys.info()["sysname"] == "Darwin")
 
   path_default_nix <- paste0(
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ testthat::test_that("rix(), ide is 'rstudio', Linux", {
 
 
 testthat::test_that("rix(), ide is 'other' or 'code'", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   path_default_nix <- paste0(
     tempdir(), paste0(sample(letters, 5), collapse = "")
   )
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ testthat::test_that("rix(), ide is 'other' or 'code'", {
 
 
 testthat::test_that("Quarto gets added to sys packages", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   path_default_nix <- normalizePath(tempdir())
 
   save_default_nix_test <- function(pkgs, interface, path_default_nix) {
@@ -162,6 +165,7 @@ testthat::test_that("Quarto gets added to sys packages", {
 
 testthat::test_that("If on darwin and ide = rstudio, raise warning", {
   skip_if(Sys.info()["sysname"] != "Darwin")
+  skip_on_cran()
 
   path_default_nix <- normalizePath(tempdir())
 
@@ -217,6 +221,7 @@ testthat::test_that("If R version is 4.4.0, raise warning", {
 })
 
 testthat::test_that("If R version is <= 4.1.1, raise warning", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   path_default_nix <- tempdir()
 
   save_default_nix_test <- function(path_default_nix) {
@@ -272,6 +277,7 @@ testthat::test_that("If on ide = rstudio, but no R packages, raise error", {
 })
 
 testthat::test_that("If R version is == 3.5.3, raise warning", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   path_default_nix <- tempdir()
 
   save_default_nix_test <- function(path_default_nix) {
@@ -299,6 +305,7 @@ testthat::test_that("If R version is == 3.5.3, raise warning", {
 })
 
 testthat::test_that("rix(), bleeding_edge", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   path_default_nix <- paste0(
     tempdir(), paste0(sample(letters, 5), collapse = "")
   )
@@ -348,6 +355,7 @@ testthat::test_that("rix(), bleeding_edge", {
 })
 
 testthat::test_that("rix(), frozen_edge", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   # because of the sed command, this will only work on Linux
   skip_if(Sys.info()["sysname"] != "Linux")
 
@@ -412,6 +420,7 @@ testthat::test_that("rix(), frozen_edge", {
 
 
 testthat::test_that("rix(), only one Github package", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   path_default_nix <- paste0(
     tempdir(), paste0(sample(letters, 5), collapse = "")
   )
@@ -451,6 +460,7 @@ testthat::test_that("rix(), only one Github package", {
 
 
 testthat::test_that("rix(), conclusion message", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   path_default_nix <- paste0(
     tempdir(), paste0(sample(letters, 5), collapse = "")
   )
@@ -482,6 +492,7 @@ testthat::test_that("rix(), conclusion message", {
 
 
 testthat::test_that("rix(), warning message if rix_init() already called", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   testthat::skip_on_os(os = c("windows", "mac"))
 
   path_default_nix <- paste0(