diff --git a/R/pkg/R/RDD.R b/R/pkg/R/RDD.R
index 2a013b3dbb968..051e441d4e063 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/RDD.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/RDD.R
@@ -1264,12 +1264,12 @@ setMethod("pipeRDD",
           signature(x = "RDD", command = "character"),
           function(x, command, env = list()) {
             func <- function(part) {
-              trim.trailing.func <- function(x) {
+              trim_trailing_func <- function(x) {
                 sub("[\r\n]*$", "", toString(x))
               }
-              input <- unlist(lapply(part, trim.trailing.func))
+              input <- unlist(lapply(part, trim_trailing_func))
               res <- system2(command, stdout = TRUE, input = input, env = env)
-              lapply(res, trim.trailing.func)
+              lapply(res, trim_trailing_func)
             }
             lapplyPartition(x, func)
           })
diff --git a/R/pkg/inst/tests/test_sparkSQL.R b/R/pkg/inst/tests/test_sparkSQL.R
index aca41aa6dcf24..25f697314f803 100644
--- a/R/pkg/inst/tests/test_sparkSQL.R
+++ b/R/pkg/inst/tests/test_sparkSQL.R
@@ -128,7 +128,9 @@ test_that("create DataFrame from RDD", {
   expect_equal(dtypes(df2), list(c("name", "string"), c("age", "int"), c("height", "float")))
   expect_equal(collect(where(df2, df2$name == "Bob")), c("Bob", 16, 176.5))
 
-  localDF <- data.frame(name=c("John", "Smith", "Sarah"), age=c(19, 23, 18), height=c(164.10, 181.4, 173.7))
+  localDF <- data.frame(name=c("John", "Smith", "Sarah"),
+                        age=c(19, 23, 18),
+                        height=c(164.10, 181.4, 173.7))
   df <- createDataFrame(sqlContext, localDF, schema)
   expect_is(df, "DataFrame")
   expect_equal(count(df), 3)