R: set 'Checkpoint' on Worker of Cluster

I use the following code to ...
1. create a parallel cluster
2. source test.R
3. and do some parallel work with functions defined in 'test.R'

library(parallel)
cl <- makeCluster(4)
clusterEvalQ(cl, source("test.R"))

  ## do some parallel work

stopCluster(cl)

Unfortunately I rely on old packages :-(
One can make use of past snapshots of the CRAN packages using 'checkpoints'

require(checkpoint)
checkpoint("2015-02-28")

My question is ...
how can I make use of the old packages on the Cluster workers?
The following does not work:

library(parallel)
cl <- makeCluster(4)
  clusterEvalQ(cl, require(checkpoint))        # 1. load checkpoint package on workers
  clusterEvalQ(cl, checkpoint("2015-02-28"))   # 2. set the checkponit on workers
clusterEvalQ(cl, source("test.R"))

  ## do some parallel work

stopCluster(cl)

The command

clusterEvalQ(cl, require(checkpoint))

Returns TRUE. But the second

clusterEvalQ(cl, checkpoint("2015-02-28"))

just hangs. I don't know why the workers hang on that command. Can I somehow look into the worker to see if they are maybe just waiting for user Input or so?

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