diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f411e644..c0d58c89 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ RUN pip install flashtext && \
     pip install pydub && \
     pip install pydegensac && \
     pip install pytorch-lightning && \
+    pip install datatable && \
     /tmp/clean-layer.sh
 
 # Tesseract and some associated utility packages
diff --git a/tests/test_datatable.py b/tests/test_datatable.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ec68ce12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_datatable.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import unittest
+import datatable as dt
+from datatable.internal import frame_integrity_check
+from datatable import ltype
+
+class TestDatatable(unittest.TestCase):    
+    def test_fread(self):
+        d0 = dt.fread(
+            "L,T,U,D\n"
+            "true,True,TRUE,1\n"
+            "false,False,FALSE,0\n"
+            ",,,\n"
+        )
+        frame_integrity_check(d0)
+        assert d0.shape == (3, 4)
+        assert d0.ltypes == (ltype.bool,) * 4
+        assert d0.to_list() == [[True, False, None]] * 4