diff --git a/R/lintr-package.R b/R/lintr-package.R
index 898db1445..4362ea608 100644
--- a/R/lintr-package.R
+++ b/R/lintr-package.R
@@ -17,11 +17,8 @@
 #' @importFrom xml2 as_list
 #'   xml_attr xml_children xml_find_all xml_find_chr xml_find_lgl xml_find_num xml_find_first xml_name xml_text
 #' @rawNamespace
-#' if (getRversion() >= "4.0.0") {
-#'   importFrom(tools, R_user_dir)
-#' } else {
-#'   importFrom(backports, R_user_dir)
-#' }
+# TODO(#2516): Use multi-line directive for readability
+#' if (getRversion() >= "4.0.0") importFrom(tools, R_user_dir) else importFrom(backports, R_user_dir)
 ## lintr namespace: end
 NULL