diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2529a0d..60a70b2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ICIKendallTau
 Title: Calculates information-content-informed Kendall-tau
-Version: 1.2.6
+Version: 1.2.7
 Authors@R: c(
     person(
       given = c("Robert", "M"), 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-kendall-tau.R b/tests/testthat/test-kendall-tau.R
index 147086f..338e330 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-kendall-tau.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-kendall-tau.R
@@ -77,25 +77,26 @@ test_that("large kendall returns correct", {
   expect_snapshot(ici_val)
 })
 
-if (run_long_kendallt) {
-  test_that("big kendall works", {
-    x = sort(rnorm(50000))
-    y = x + 1
-    x[1:5000] = NA
-    
-    t1 = ici_kt(x, y, perspective = "global")
-    t2 = ICIKendallTau:::ici_kt_pairs(x, y, perspective = "global")
-    expect_equal(t1[c(1, 2)], t2)
-  })
+test_that("big kendall works", {
+  skip_if_not(run_long_kendallt)
+  x = sort(rnorm(50000))
+  y = x + 1
+  x[1:5000] = NA
+  
+  t1 = ici_kt(x, y, perspective = "global")
+  t2 = ICIKendallTau:::ici_kt_pairs(x, y, perspective = "global")
+  expect_equal(t1[c(1, 2)], t2)
+})
 
-  test_that("lots of kendall works", {
-    x = matrix(rnorm(500000), 5000, 100)
-    colnames(x) = paste0('s', seq_len(ncol(x)))
+test_that("lots of kendall works", {
+  skip_if_not(run_long_kendallt)
+  x = matrix(rnorm(500000), 5000, 100)
+  colnames(x) = paste0('s', seq_len(ncol(x)))
+
+  t1 = ici_kendalltau(x)
+  expect_lt(t1$run_time, 9)
+})
 
-    t1 = ici_kendalltau(x)
-    expect_lt(t1$run_time, 9)
-  })
-}
 
 
 test_that("include_only works as intended", {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-logging.R b/tests/testthat/test-logging.R
index f5be459..a22adec 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-logging.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-logging.R
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
+run_long_kendallt = as.logical(Sys.getenv("run_long_kendallt"))
+if (is.na(run_long_kendallt)) {
+  run_long_kendallt = FALSE
+}
+
 test_that("logger detection works", {
+  skip_if_not(run_long_kendallt)
   new_lib = tempfile()
   dir.create(new_lib)
   withr::with_libpaths(new_lib, {