diff --git a/factors.Rmd b/factors.Rmd
index 4863187..2f42a11 100644
--- a/factors.Rmd
+++ b/factors.Rmd
@@ -8,11 +8,10 @@ Historically, factors were much easier to work with than characters. As a result
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
-To work with factors, we'll use the __forcats__ package, which provides tools for dealing with **cat**egorical variables (and it's an anagram of factors!). It provides a wide range of helpers for working with factors. forcats is not part of the core tidyverse, so we need to load it explicitly.
+To work with factors, we'll use the __forcats__ package, which is part of the core tidyverse. It provides tools for dealing with **cat**egorical variables (and it's an anagram of factors!) using a wide range of helpers for working with factors. 
 
 ```{r setup, message = FALSE}
 library(tidyverse)
-library(forcats)
 ```
 
 ### Learning more
diff --git a/strings.Rmd b/strings.Rmd
index 84c697e..5e12aeb 100644
--- a/strings.Rmd
+++ b/strings.Rmd
@@ -6,11 +6,10 @@ This chapter introduces you to string manipulation in R. You'll learn the basics
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
-This chapter will focus on the __stringr__ package for string manipulation. stringr is not part of the core tidyverse because you don't always have textual data, so we need to load it explicitly.
+This chapter will focus on the __stringr__ package for string manipulation, which is part of the core tidyverse.
 
 ```{r setup, message = FALSE}
 library(tidyverse)
-library(stringr)
 ```
 
 ## String basics