diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ff326321a..997603163 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Imports:
 Suggests:
     bookdown,
     cyclocomp,
+    data.table,
     jsonlite,
     patrick (>= 0.2.0),
     rlang,
@@ -46,8 +47,6 @@ Suggests:
     tibble,
     tufte,
     withr (>= 2.5.0)
-Enhances:
-    data.table
 VignetteBuilder: 
     knitr
 Config/Needs/website: tidyverse/tidytemplate
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 3126b16ad..d7089a304 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 S3method("[",lints)
 S3method(as.data.frame,lints)
+S3method(data.table::as.data.table,lints)
 S3method(format,lint)
 S3method(format,lints)
 S3method(names,lints)
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ S3method(print,lint)
 S3method(print,lints)
 S3method(split,lints)
 S3method(summary,lints)
+S3method(tibble::as_tibble,lints)
 export(Lint)
 export(Linter)
 export(T_and_F_symbol_linter)
diff --git a/R/methods.R b/R/methods.R
index 7a8fe3cc1..211222a58 100644
--- a/R/methods.R
+++ b/R/methods.R
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ as.data.frame.lints <- function(x, row.names = NULL, optional = FALSE, ...) { #
   )
 }
 
+#' @exportS3Method tibble::as_tibble
 as_tibble.lints <- function(x, ..., # nolint: object_name_linter.
                             .rows = NULL,
                             .name_repair = c("check_unique", "unique", "universal", "minimal"),
@@ -181,6 +182,7 @@ as_tibble.lints <- function(x, ..., # nolint: object_name_linter.
   tibble::as_tibble(as.data.frame(x), ..., .rows = .rows, .name_repair = .name_repair, rownames = rownames)
 }
 
+#' @exportS3Method data.table::as.data.table
 as.data.table.lints <- function(x, keep.rownames = FALSE, ...) { # nolint: object_name_linter.
   stopifnot(requireNamespace("data.table", quietly = TRUE))
   data.table::setDT(as.data.frame(x), keep.rownames = keep.rownames, ...)
diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index e281353db..efff93b2f 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -330,11 +330,5 @@ settings <- new.env(parent = emptyenv())
 
   reset_settings()
 
-  if (requireNamespace("tibble", quietly = TRUE)) {
-    registerS3method("as_tibble", "lints", as_tibble.lints, asNamespace("tibble"))
-  }
-  if (requireNamespace("data.table", quietly = TRUE)) {
-    registerS3method("as.data.table", "lints", as.data.table.lints, asNamespace("data.table"))
-  }
 }
 # nocov end