diff --git a/R-package/NAMESPACE b/R-package/NAMESPACE
index 7aef39a1f6de..14db7ba98d6c 100644
--- a/R-package/NAMESPACE
+++ b/R-package/NAMESPACE
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export(saveRDS.lgb.Booster)
 export(setinfo)
 export(slice)
 import(methods)
+importFrom(Matrix,Matrix)
 importFrom(R6,R6Class)
 importFrom(data.table,":=")
 importFrom(data.table,as.data.table)
diff --git a/R-package/R/lightgbm.R b/R-package/R/lightgbm.R
index 9459ccc4d5c4..12640ecfb0af 100644
--- a/R-package/R/lightgbm.R
+++ b/R-package/R/lightgbm.R
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ NULL
 
 # Various imports
 #' @import methods
+#' @importFrom Matrix Matrix
 #' @importFrom R6 R6Class
 #' @useDynLib lib_lightgbm , .registration = TRUE
 NULL