diff --git a/R-package/tests/testthat/test_dataset.R b/R-package/tests/testthat/test_dataset.R
index 242d037c9f8e..93ccbf23288a 100644
--- a/R-package/tests/testthat/test_dataset.R
+++ b/R-package/tests/testthat/test_dataset.R
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-library(lightgbm)
-library(Matrix)
-
 context("testing lgb.Dataset functionality")
 
 data(agaricus.test, package = "lightgbm")