diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a7428bc..97e0122 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Depends:
 Imports: 
     cli,
     desc,
-    dplyr,
     fs,
     glue,
     httptest2,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 95cc4cf..1f235b4 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ importFrom(S7,class_list)
 importFrom(cli,cli_abort)
 importFrom(cli,cli_warn)
 importFrom(desc,desc)
-importFrom(dplyr,coalesce)
-importFrom(dplyr,filter)
 importFrom(fs,file_delete)
 importFrom(fs,file_exists)
 importFrom(fs,is_dir)
diff --git a/R/beekeeper-package.R b/R/beekeeper-package.R
index eb0c7b0..9005276 100644
--- a/R/beekeeper-package.R
+++ b/R/beekeeper-package.R
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 #' @importFrom cli cli_abort
 #' @importFrom cli cli_warn
 #' @importFrom desc desc
-#' @importFrom dplyr coalesce
-#' @importFrom dplyr filter
 #' @importFrom fs file_delete
 #' @importFrom fs file_exists
 #' @importFrom fs is_dir
diff --git a/R/generate_pkg-paths.R b/R/generate_pkg-paths.R
index 7b9aa5c..d6d9615 100644
--- a/R/generate_pkg-paths.R
+++ b/R/generate_pkg-paths.R
@@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ S7::method(as_bk_data, class_paths) <- function(x) {
 }
 
 .paths_to_tags_df <- function(x) {
+  x <- unnest(x, "operations")
+  x <- x[!x$deprecated, ]
   nest(
-    filter(
-      unnest(x, "operations"),
-      !.data$deprecated
-    ),
+    x,
     .by = "tags", .key = "endpoints"
   )
 }
@@ -75,12 +74,12 @@ S7::method(as_bk_data, class_paths) <- function(x) {
 ### fill data ------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 .paths_fill_operation_id <- function(operation_id, endpoint, method) {
-  coalesce(.to_snake(operation_id), glue("{method}_{.to_snake(endpoint)}"))
+  .coalesce(.to_snake(operation_id), glue("{method}_{.to_snake(endpoint)}"))
 }
 
 .paths_fill_summary <- function(summary, endpoint, method) {
   endpoint_spaced <- str_replace_all(.to_snake(endpoint), "_", " ")
-  coalesce(
+  .coalesce(
     str_squish(summary),
     str_to_sentence(glue("{method} {endpoint_spaced}"))
   )
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ S7::method(as_bk_data, class_paths) <- function(x) {
 .prepare_paths_df <- function(params_df) {
   params_df <- .flatten_df(params_df)
   if (nrow(params_df)) {
-    params_df <- filter(params_df, !.data$deprecated)
+    params_df <- params_df[!params_df$deprecated, ]
     params_df$description <- .paths_fill_descriptions(params_df$description)
   }
   return(params_df)
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 7676e88..0d0ad64 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
   }
 }
 
+.coalesce <- function(x, y) {
+  ifelse(is.na(x), y, x)
+}
+
 .collapse_comma <- function(x) {
   glue_collapse(x, sep = ", ")
 }
diff --git a/tests/testthat/_fixtures/000-create_fixtures.R b/tests/testthat/_fixtures/000-create_fixtures.R
index c4ffac1..21a3ef6 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/_fixtures/000-create_fixtures.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/_fixtures/000-create_fixtures.R
@@ -33,11 +33,12 @@ fec_rapid |>
     rapid_file = rapid_write_path
   )
 fec_rapid@paths <- rapid::as_paths({
-  fec_rapid@paths |>
+  x <- fec_rapid@paths |>
     tibble::as_tibble() |>
-    tidyr::hoist(operations, tags = "tags", .remove = FALSE) |>
-    dplyr::filter(tags %in% c("audit", "debts", "legal")) |>
-    dplyr::select(-tags)
+    tidyr::hoist(operations, tags = "tags", .remove = FALSE)
+  x <- x[x$tags %in% c("audit", "debts", "legal"), ]
+  x$tags <- NULL
+  x
 })
 rapid_write_path <- test_path(glue::glue("_fixtures/{api_abbr}_subset_rapid.rds"))
 config_path <- test_path(glue::glue("_fixtures/{api_abbr}_subset_beekeeper.yml"))
@@ -56,10 +57,10 @@ trello_rapid <- apid_url |>
   url() |>
   rapid::as_rapid()
 trello_rapid@paths <- rapid::as_paths({
-  trello_rapid@paths |>
+  x <- trello_rapid@paths |>
     tibble::as_tibble() |>
-    tidyr::unnest(operations) |>
-    dplyr::filter(tags == "board") |>
+    tidyr::unnest(operations)
+  x[x$tags == "board", ] |>
     head(1) |>
     tidyr::nest(.by = "endpoint", .key = "operations")
 })