diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 91fb891..273daef 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 ^docs$
 ^pkgdown$
 ^\.github$
+^inst$
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index d86d5cb..1f0ac11 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -10,7 +10,5 @@ export(loadGiottoMini)
 export(loadSubObjectMini)
 import(GiottoClass)
 import(GiottoUtils)
-import(data.table)
-import(ggplot2)
 import(utils)
 importClassesFrom(data.table,data.table)
diff --git a/R/globals.R b/R/globals.R
index 3b170a4..dad7e12 100644
--- a/R/globals.R
+++ b/R/globals.R
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-
-
-#' @import ggplot2
-#' @import data.table
-#' @import utils
-utils::globalVariables(names = c(":=", ".N", ".SD", ".", 
+utils::globalVariables(names = c(":=", ".N", ".SD", ".",
                                  "get_SODB_dataset", "check_SODB_adata",
                                   "list_SODB_datasets", "list_SODB_dataset_experiments"))
diff --git a/inst/Mini_datasets/Vizgen/mini_vizgen_script.R b/inst/Mini_datasets/Vizgen/mini_vizgen_script.R
index f2e195a..fcf0642 100644
--- a/inst/Mini_datasets/Vizgen/mini_vizgen_script.R
+++ b/inst/Mini_datasets/Vizgen/mini_vizgen_script.R
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 # devtools::load_all(path = '/Users/rubendries/r_packages/Giotto/')
 
 library(terra)
-library(data.table)
 library(GiottoClass)
 library(GiottoVisuals)
 library(Giotto)