On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:07 AM Georgi Boshnakov
<georgi.boshna...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> It is worth noting that
>
> help(package="<package>")
>
> shows  file <package>-package.Rd, while
>
> help(<package>)
>
> shows topic "package".
>
> Topic <package>-package.Rd is also printed at the top of the pdf manual, 
> while package.Rd follows the alphabetical ordering of the remaining topics. 
> It is unfortunate that Hadley Wickham's tools (at least 'pkgdown') recommend 
> and use <package>.Rd, instead of <package>-package.Rd as overall package 
> description.

I'm not sure what lead you to that believe, but we definitely support
(and have supported for years) package?<package>.  See, e.g.
https://usethis.r-lib.org/reference/use_package_doc.html

Hadley

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