diff --git a/R/backend-dbplyr__duckdb_connection.R b/R/backend-dbplyr__duckdb_connection.R
index 4dda1aa96..c27f03f6f 100644
--- a/R/backend-dbplyr__duckdb_connection.R
+++ b/R/backend-dbplyr__duckdb_connection.R
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #'
 #' @name backend-duckdb
 #' @aliases NULL
-#' @examples
+#' @examplesIf rlang::is_installed("dbplyr")
 #' library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
 #' con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb(), path = ":memory:")
 #'
diff --git a/man/backend-duckdb.Rd b/man/backend-duckdb.Rd
index cdac292c0..3eab99358 100644
--- a/man/backend-duckdb.Rd
+++ b/man/backend-duckdb.Rd
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ possibilities. This mainly follows the backend for PostgreSQL, but
 contains more mapped functions.
 }
 \examples{
+\dontshow{if (rlang::is_installed("dbplyr")) (if (getRversion() >= "3.4") withAutoprint else force)(\{ # examplesIf}
 library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
 con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb(), path = ":memory:")
 
@@ -29,4 +30,5 @@ dbiris \%>\%
   head(5)
 
 DBI::dbDisconnect(con, shutdown = TRUE)
+\dontshow{\}) # examplesIf}
 }
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_arrow_stream.R b/tests/testthat/test_arrow_stream.R
index f16f5ce2d..966a7c3b4 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_arrow_stream.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_arrow_stream.R
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 skip_on_cran()
 skip_on_os("windows")
 skip_if_not_installed("arrow", "5.0.0")
+skip_if_not_installed("dbplyr")
 
 library("testthat")
 library("DBI")
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_tbl__duckdb_connection.R b/tests/testthat/test_tbl__duckdb_connection.R
index f0bb07d82..3b3fbea01 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_tbl__duckdb_connection.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_tbl__duckdb_connection.R
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 skip_on_cran()
-`%>%` <- dplyr::`%>%`
+if (rlang::is_installed("dbplyr")) {
+  `%>%` <- dplyr::`%>%`
+}
 
 test_that("Parquet files can be registered with dplyr::tbl()", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("dbplyr")
+
   con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb())
   on.exit(DBI::dbDisconnect(con, shutdown = TRUE))
 
@@ -24,6 +28,8 @@ test_that("Parquet files can be registered with dplyr::tbl()", {
 
 
 test_that("Object cache can be enabled for parquet files with dplyr::tbl()", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("dbplyr")
+
   con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb())
   on.exit(DBI::dbDisconnect(con, shutdown = TRUE))
 
@@ -38,6 +44,8 @@ test_that("Object cache can be enabled for parquet files with dplyr::tbl()", {
 
 
 test_that("CSV files can be registered with dplyr::tbl()", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("dbplyr")
+
   path <- file.path(tempdir(), "duckdbtest.csv")
   write.csv(iris, file = path)
   on.exit(unlink(path))
@@ -55,6 +63,8 @@ test_that("CSV files can be registered with dplyr::tbl()", {
 })
 
 test_that("Other replacement scans or functions can be registered with dplyr::tbl()", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("dbplyr")
+
   con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb())
   on.exit(DBI::dbDisconnect(con, shutdown = TRUE))
 
@@ -64,12 +74,14 @@ test_that("Other replacement scans or functions can be registered with dplyr::tb
 })
 
 test_that("Strings tagged as SQL will be handled correctly with dplyr::tbl()", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("dbplyr")
+
   con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb())
   on.exit(DBI::dbDisconnect(con, shutdown = TRUE))
-  
+
   rs <- dplyr::tbl(con, dplyr::sql("SELECT 1"))
   expect_true(inherits(rs, "tbl_duckdb_connection"))
   expect_true(rs %>% dplyr::collect() == 1)
 })
 
-rm(`%>%`)
+try(rm(`%>%`))