diff --git a/R/ArrowIO.R b/R/ArrowIO.R
index d092e4a004..562a072634 100644
--- a/R/ArrowIO.R
+++ b/R/ArrowIO.R
@@ -85,22 +85,6 @@ tiledb_arrow_schema_del <- function(ptr) {
     .delete_arrow_schema_from_xptr(ptr)
 }
 
-## ## ' @noRd
-## .check_arrow_pointers <- function(arrlst) {
-##     stopifnot("First argument must be an external pointer to ArrowArray" = check_arrow_array_tag(arrlst[[1]]),
-##               "Second argument must be an external pointer to ArrowSchema" = check_arrow_schema_tag(arrlst[[2]]))
-## }
-
-## ## ' @noRd
-## .as_arrow_table <- function(arrlst) {
-##     .check_arrow_pointers(arrlst)
-##     if (!requireNamespace("arrow", quietly=TRUE)) {
-##         stop("This functionality requires the 'arrow' package to be installed.", call. = FALSE)
-##     } else {
-##         arrow::as_arrow_table(arrow::RecordBatch$import_from_c(arrlst[[1]], arrlst[[2]]))
-##     }
-## }
-
 ##' @noRd
 .tiledb_set_arrow_config <- function(ctx = tiledb_get_context()) {
     cfg <- tiledb_config()        # for var-num columns such as char we need these
diff --git a/R/TileDBArray.R b/R/TileDBArray.R
index 3179ecf541..28c32d983a 100644
--- a/R/TileDBArray.R
+++ b/R/TileDBArray.R
@@ -491,12 +491,6 @@ setValidity("tiledb_array", function(object) {
     bit64::as.integer64(val)
 }
 
-# ' @exportS3Method nanoarrow::as_arrow_table
-#as_arrow_table.nanoarrow_array <- function(x, ..., schema = NULL) {
-#    print(class(x))
-#    arrow::as_arrow_table(x, schema = schema)
-#}
-
 #' Returns a TileDB array, allowing for specific subset ranges.
 #'
 #' Heterogenous domains are supported, including timestamps and characters.
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/test_timetravel.R b/inst/tinytest/test_timetravel.R
index 75c69287db..500b1bb343 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/test_timetravel.R
+++ b/inst/tinytest/test_timetravel.R
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ while (deltat < 30) {
         isTRUE(all.equal(NROW(res5), 20)) && 		            # expects 2 groups, 2 and 3, with 20 obs
         isTRUE(all.equal(min(res5$grp), 2)) &&
         isTRUE(all.equal(max(res5$grp), 3))) {
-           #if (Sys.getenv("CI") != "") message("Success with gap time of ", deltat)
            success <- TRUE
            break
     }