diff --git a/tests/testthat/helper-state.R b/tests/testthat/helper-state.R
index 2d2a9b7ef..fbec034f3 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/helper-state.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/helper-state.R
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ testthat::set_state_inspector(function() {
     envvars = Sys.getenv(),
     libpaths = .libPaths(),
     locale = Sys.getlocale(),
-    # sometimes a dependency might add  a custom option, so we need to
-    # make sure we don't fail because of them
-    options = options()[names(.Options)],
     packages = .packages(all.available = TRUE),
     NULL
   )
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-absolute_path_linter.R b/tests/testthat/test-absolute_path_linter.R
index aa8d66f9d..6e8805b14 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-absolute_path_linter.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-absolute_path_linter.R
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # styler: off
 test_that("is_root_path", {
-  options(width = 150)
   Sys.setenv("NOT_CRAN" = "false")
   f <- lintr:::is_root_path