useR! 2024

The vast majority of packages are documented in English, due to the language's status as de-facto lingua franca. But what if your package is designed with a specific demographic in mind that could be better served by documentation in another language? Non-English documentation would make your package more accessible to them at the expense of isolating it from the wider international community. But... ¿por qué no los dos? The rhelpi18n package adds support for multilingual documentation in R so you can have the best of both worlds. Package authors or community projects can create translation modules that users can install to access documentation in their languages directly from R. The talk will include a high-level view of how this package extends R help system and will explain how people can create, install and use translation modules for R packages.