build – Resolve conflicting functions in R package DESCRIPTION file imports

I am trying to build an R package that depends on the following packages: heatmaply, stats, and igraph. I’ve created a DESCRIPTION file that includes the following:


However, when I try to build, I’m getting the following warnings (“myPkg” is a placeholder for my actual package name here):

Warning messages:
1: replacing previous import 'heatmaply::normalize' by 'igraph::normalize' when loading 'myPkg' 
2: replacing previous import 'igraph::decompose' by 'stats::decompose' when loading 'myPkg' 
3: replacing previous import 'igraph::spectrum' by 'stats::spectrum' when loading 'myPkg'

Notably, I’m not actually using any of the conflicting functions. But because the entire package is listed as a dependency, the conflicts are an issue. Is there an elegant way to solve this? I know that I can use import::from() inline to import only the functions I need, but I prefer not to do that because inline imports are considered poor practice.