Opening documentation through `box::help()` gone wrong for a name re-exported through a parent `__init__.r`, but works when the submodule is qualified directly

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Error description

Is this a known bug? I will file an issue here just in case. You see, when a function is re-exported from a nested module through its parent __init__.r (via a #' @export on a box::use() declaration or box::export() on some instance), calling the re-exported function through the parent module works fine, but box::help() cannot find its documentation. Qualifying the import path down to the actual submodule where the function is defined makes box::help() work as expected.

Here's an example directory structure:

module/
    __init__.R
    folder1/
        __init__.R
        df.R
        types.R
    folder2/
        __init__.R
        df.R
        types.R
    folder3/
        __init__.R
        types.R
    scripts1.R
    scripts2.R

The the following codes:

1. module/__init__.R:

   #' @export
   box::use(
       ./folder1,
       ./folder2,
       ./folder3,
       ./scripts1,
       ./scripts2[fn1],
   )

2. module/scripts2.R (relevant excerpt):

   #' Do a thing
   #'
   #' @param x a value
   #' @export
   fn1 = function(x) {
       x
   }

And when I use:

# Import through the parent module
box::use(./module[fn1])

# Works as it is
fn1(1) # [1] 1

# Fails to find/display documentation
box::help(fn1)
## Error in box::help(fn1) : 
##   no documentation available for “fn1” in module “./module”

# Import qualified directly to the submodule instead
box::use(./module/scripts2[fn1])

# Documentation is displayed correctly
box::help(fn1)

box::help() should be able to locate and display the documentation for fn1 regardless of whether it was imported through the parent module's re-export (./module[fn1]) or directly from the submodule where it's defined (./module/scripts2[fn1]). Unfortunately, what I got is an opposite. Here, box::help() (only) finds the documentation when importing directly from a submodule that defines the name. When imported through the parent module's re-export chain, box::help() fails to locate it, even though the function itself works correctly (i.e. this is more of a documentation-lookup issue, not really an export issue since I still can use fn1()).

Edit: The examples are just placeholders. I mistyped fn1 as walk (trying to extract walk tutorial from tidytable)

R version

platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32               
arch           x86_64                           
os             mingw32                          
crt            ucrt                             
system         x86_64, mingw32                  
status                                          
major          4                                
minor          5.0                              
year           2025                             
month          04                               
day            11                               
svn rev        88135                            
language       R                                
version.string R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
nickname       How About a Twenty-Six

‘box’ version

1.2.2