For example, see this line: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/blob/3f727a1313db1c06b2e832b4684ec10b31dc58b0/R/dev-help.r#L77 The corresponding Rd file doesn't show any of the inherited arguments: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/blob/3f727a1313db1c06b2e832b4684ec10b31dc58b0/man/help.Rd#L11 This probably has something to do with the use of the operator, `utils::`?``.