diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f822328713f6003ae24a1e50cb415293ac3a009c..536d8dc15a827b80aa1d358d56cb4b95e909b698 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ Collate:
     'getDataFromFile.r'
     'getParameterInfo.r'
     'getPreLoadedData.r'
-    'getPreLoadedQWData.r'
     'checkStartEndDate.r'
     'dateFormatCheck.r'
     'formatCheckDate.r'
diff --git a/R/getPreLoadedQWData.r b/R/getPreLoadedQWData.r
deleted file mode 100644
index 939784457acdc63cb3289e5ffdf892b86abd5035..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/R/getPreLoadedQWData.r
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#' Convert Preloaded QW Data
-#'
-#' Imports data from data already pre-loaded into the R workspace. Specifically used to import water flow data for use in the WRTDS package.
-#' For WRTDS usage, the first column is expected to be dates, the second column measured values.
-#' The third column is optional, it contains any remark codes.
-#'
-#' @param rawData dataframe data already loaded into R workspace
-#' @keywords data import
-#' @return retval dataframe with dateTime, value, and code columns
-getPreLoadedQWData <- function (rawData){  
-  retval <- as.data.frame(rawData, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
-  numColumns <- ncol(retval)
-  i <- 1
-  while (i <= numColumns) {
-    retval[[i]] <- as.character(retval[[i]])
-    i <- i + 1
-  }
-  retval[[1]] <- as.character(retval[[1]])
-  return (retval)
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/man/getPreLoadedQWData.Rd b/man/getPreLoadedQWData.Rd
deleted file mode 100644
index 980ba44022aee54a7f8d540a1ee45feee45058bf..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/man/getPreLoadedQWData.Rd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-\name{getPreLoadedQWData}
-\alias{getPreLoadedQWData}
-\title{Convert Preloaded QW Data}
-\usage{
-  getPreLoadedQWData(rawData)
-}
-\arguments{
-  \item{rawData}{dataframe data already loaded into R
-  workspace}
-}
-\value{
-  retval dataframe with dateTime, value, and code columns
-}
-\description{
-  Imports data from data already pre-loaded into the R
-  workspace. Specifically used to import water flow data
-  for use in the WRTDS package. For WRTDS usage, the first
-  column is expected to be dates, the second column
-  measured values. The third column is optional, it
-  contains any remark codes.
-}
-\keyword{data}
-\keyword{import}
-