diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 1b2bf16..96906b2 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ importFrom(rtracklayer,import.chain)
 importFrom(rtracklayer,liftOver)
 importFrom(stats,p.adjust)
 importFrom(stats,phyper)
-importFrom(utils,data)
 importFrom(utils,download.file)
 importFrom(utils,read.delim)
 importFrom(utils,setTxtProgressBar)
diff --git a/R/GEO.R b/R/GEO.R
index 1b9fcda..8628818 100644
--- a/R/GEO.R
+++ b/R/GEO.R
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ downloadGEO.internal <- function(info, destDir) {
     }
 }
 
-##' @importFrom utils data
 ## @importFrom GEOmetadb
 ## @importFrom RSQLite dbConnect
 ## @importFrom RSQLite dbGetQuery