diff --git a/R/pkg/R/deserialize.R b/R/pkg/R/deserialize.R
index d04ec47e60200..dad6f546f2b91 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/deserialize.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/deserialize.R
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ readRowList <- function(obj) {
   # deserialize the row.
   rawObj <- rawConnection(obj, "r+")
   on.exit(close(rawObj))
-  SparkR:::readRow(rawObj)
+  readRow(rawObj)
 }
 
 readRow <- function(inputCon) {
diff --git a/R/pkg/R/pairRDD.R b/R/pkg/R/pairRDD.R
index 7929a29c00e1d..c2396c32a7548 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/pairRDD.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/pairRDD.R
@@ -708,9 +708,9 @@ setMethod("cogroup",
                 acc <- res[[i]]
                 # Create an accumulator.
                 if (is.null(acc)) {
-                  acc <- SparkR:::initAccumulator()
+                  acc <- initAccumulator()
                 }
-                SparkR:::addItemToAccumulator(acc, x[[2]])
+                addItemToAccumulator(acc, x[[2]])
                 res[[i]] <- acc
               }
               lapply(res, function(acc) {
diff --git a/R/pkg/R/serialize.R b/R/pkg/R/serialize.R
index 08e1215e1bfbe..e78908bfa32fd 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/serialize.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/serialize.R
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ writeRowSerialize <- function(outputCon, rows) {
 serializeRow <- function(row) {
   rawObj <- rawConnection(raw(0), "wb")
   on.exit(close(rawObj))
-  SparkR:::writeRow(rawObj, row)
+  writeRow(rawObj, row)
   rawConnectionValue(rawObj)
 }
 
diff --git a/R/pkg/R/sparkR.R b/R/pkg/R/sparkR.R
index b149122dc7247..bc82df01f0fff 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/sparkR.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/sparkR.R
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ connExists <- function(env) {
 sparkR.stop <- function() {
   env <- .sparkREnv
   if (exists(".sparkRCon", envir = env)) {
-    cat("Stopping SparkR\n")
+    # cat("Stopping SparkR\n")
     if (exists(".sparkRjsc", envir = env)) {
       sc <- get(".sparkRjsc", envir = env)
       callJMethod(sc, "stop")
diff --git a/R/pkg/R/utils.R b/R/pkg/R/utils.R
index 7dafb33704b52..c337fb0751e72 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/utils.R
@@ -299,17 +299,17 @@ getStorageLevel <- function(newLevel = c("DISK_ONLY",
                                          "OFF_HEAP")) {
   match.arg(newLevel)
   storageLevel <- switch(newLevel,
-                         "DISK_ONLY" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "DISK_ONLY"),
-                         "DISK_ONLY_2" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "DISK_ONLY_2"),
-                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK"),
-                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK_2" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK_2"),
-                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER"),
-                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER_2" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER_2"),
-                         "MEMORY_ONLY" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY"),
-                         "MEMORY_ONLY_2" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY_2"),
-                         "MEMORY_ONLY_SER" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY_SER"),
-                         "MEMORY_ONLY_SER_2" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY_SER_2"),
-                         "OFF_HEAP" = SparkR:::callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "OFF_HEAP"))
+                         "DISK_ONLY" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "DISK_ONLY"),
+                         "DISK_ONLY_2" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "DISK_ONLY_2"),
+                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK"),
+                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK_2" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK_2"),
+                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER"),
+                         "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER_2" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER_2"),
+                         "MEMORY_ONLY" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY"),
+                         "MEMORY_ONLY_2" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY_2"),
+                         "MEMORY_ONLY_SER" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY_SER"),
+                         "MEMORY_ONLY_SER_2" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "MEMORY_ONLY_SER_2"),
+                         "OFF_HEAP" = callJStatic("org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel", "OFF_HEAP"))
 }
 
 # Utility function for functions where an argument needs to be integer but we want to allow