Is there some functionality for NAMSPACE files where I can import a package, except a couple of functions, something like importExcept The situation is that I import from two different packages, A and B . A (Biobase) is quite big and I essentially want to import all of the package. B (matrixStats) is very small and I also want to import the whole package, However, there is a name conflict (rowMedians and anyMissing exists in both packages) and I prefer to keep the version from the small package B. As I understand it, this means I need to change my current import(Biobase) import(matrixStats) to something like importFrom(Biobase, ***) import(matrixStats) where *** is a list of all functions in Biobase except rowMedians (and anyMissing), because right now R CMD check complains. Is there a better way? If not, I would like to put in a request for something like importFromExcept() Thanks, Kasper