diff --git a/R/strrep.R b/R/strrep.R
deleted file mode 100644
index 7cbae7c87..000000000
--- a/R/strrep.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-strrep <- NULL
-strrep_compat <- function(x, times) {
-  map_chr(
-    times,
-    function(n) {
-      if (is.na(n)) {
-        NA_character_
-      } else {
-        paste(rep(x, n), collapse = "")
-      }
-    }
-  )
-}
diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index 01b08d9ee..64e1c7c8b 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -47,12 +47,6 @@ NULL
 
   assign_crayon_styles()
 
-  if (getRversion() < "3.3.0") {
-    strrep <<- strrep_compat
-  } else {
-    rm("strrep", inherits = TRUE)
-  }
-
   # Necessary to re-parse environment variable
   if (Sys.getenv("DEBUGME") != "" && rlang::is_installed("debugme")) {
     # activate_debugme()