diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/bare-name.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/bare-name.ts
index ce23c7244..a15299497 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/bare-name.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/r/bare-name.ts
@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@
  * R lets any name be written in backticks (`` `%+%` ``, `` `my fn` ``,
  * `` `helper` ``); the symbol is the text between them. The graph and the scope
  * model keep a definition's name exactly as written, while NAMESPACE entries,
- * roxygen tags and rename requests carry the symbol. Every place that compares
- * the two spellings goes through {@link rBareName}, so there is one definition of
- * "the same name".
+ * roxygen tags and rename requests carry the symbol. The scope, qualified-call,
+ * post-parse, rename and type code compare the two spellings through
+ * {@link rBareName}, so there is one definition of "the same name" there. The one
+ * other normaliser is `stripBackticks` in `import-resolvers/r.ts`, which removes
+ * every leading and trailing backtick from a NAMESPACE entry (a quoted
+ * `` "`x`" `` entry keeps its backticks after `normaliseArg`) before comparing it
+ * with a symbol.
  *
  * One pair of surrounding backticks is removed, in constant time. An escaped
  * backtick inside the name stays as written, as `normaliseArg` in