diff --git a/docs/languages/r-provider.md b/docs/languages/r-provider.md
index 923831888..40d601a8c 100644
--- a/docs/languages/r-provider.md
+++ b/docs/languages/r-provider.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Types:
 Imports:
 
 - `library()` and `require()` resolve to local packages, and `source()` to local files. The argument is `package=` / `file=` wherever it sits, else the first unnamed argument after any named one; named-first arguments such as `lib.loc=` and `local=` are not imports.
-- NAMESPACE `importFrom()` names bind to definitions in local packages.
+- NAMESPACE `importFrom()` names bind to definitions in local packages. A name that can never bind (not exported, not defined at top level, or dotted) creates no import, so its calls keep the `global-name-fallback` guess.
 
 Calls:
 
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/import-resolvers/r.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/import-resolvers/r.ts
index 73e693e3e..32e33d4f9 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/import-resolvers/r.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/import-resolvers/r.ts
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ const stripBackticks = (s: string): string => s.replace(/^`+|`+$/g, '');
  * layout where the bare def comes first). `null` degrades the call site to the
  * baseline `global-name-fallback` guess. Never builds a workspace file index.
  */
-function resolveRNamedImport(
+export function resolveRNamedImport(
   rConfig: RPackageConfig | null,
   targetRaw: string,
   importedName: string,
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/namespace-imports.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/namespace-imports.ts
index d404f44a3..ac0d86841 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/namespace-imports.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/namespace-imports.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 import type { ParsedFile, ParsedImport } from 'gitnexus-shared';
 import type { RPackageConfig } from './package-config.js';
 import { unescapeRString } from './export-pattern.js';
+import { resolveRNamedImport } from '../../import-resolvers/r.js';
 
 /** One `importFrom(pkg, name)` pair, in NAMESPACE file order. */
 export interface RNamespaceImportFromEntry {
@@ -622,6 +623,11 @@ export function populateRNamespaceImports(
     const synthesised: Extract<ParsedImport, { kind: 'named' }>[] = [];
     for (const [name, pkg] of plan.bindable) {
       if (ownNames?.has(name) === true) continue;
+      // `null` means the name can never bind. A synthesised import for it would stay unresolved
+      // yet count as an explicit name claim, suppressing the documented `global-name-fallback`.
+      // (Importing the resolver forms a cycle with import-resolvers/r.ts; every use is deferred
+      // to call time, so it is safe at runtime.)
+      if (resolveRNamedImport(cfg, pkg, name, parsedFiles) === null) continue;
       synthesised.push({ kind: 'named', localName: name, importedName: name, targetRaw: pkg });
     }
     if (synthesised.length === 0) continue;