diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4f53876..e18649c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2.2
+  - spell_check_package() now loads Rd macros (#42)
+
 2.1
   - Pre-filter script/style/img tags when checking html files because the huge
     embedded binary blogs produced by rmarkdown slow down the hunspell parser.
diff --git a/R/check-files.R b/R/check-files.R
index c6d8dd4..526ea1c 100644
--- a/R/check-files.R
+++ b/R/check-files.R
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ spell_check_description_text <- function(file, dict){
 }
 
 spell_check_file_rd <- function(rdfile, macros = NULL, dict) {
-  if (is.null(macros)) {
-    text <- tools::RdTextFilter(rdfile)
+  text <- if (!length(macros)) {
+    tools::RdTextFilter(rdfile)
   } else {
-    text <- tools::RdTextFilter(rdfile, macros = macros)
+    tools::RdTextFilter(rdfile, macros = macros)
   }
   Encoding(text) <- "UTF-8"
   spell_check_plain(text, dict = dict)
diff --git a/R/spell-check.R b/R/spell-check.R
index 0630c58..9274f43 100644
--- a/R/spell-check.R
+++ b/R/spell-check.R
@@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ spell_check_package <- function(pkg = ".", vignettes = TRUE, use_wordlist = TRUE
 
   # Check Rd manual files
   rd_files <- sort(list.files(file.path(pkg$path, "man"), "\\.rd$", ignore.case = TRUE, full.names = TRUE))
-  macros <- tools::loadPkgRdMacros(pkg$path)
   macros <- tools::loadRdMacros(
     file.path(R.home("share"), "Rd", "macros", "system.Rd"),
-    macros = macros
+    tools::loadPkgRdMacros(pkg$path)
   )
   rd_lines <- lapply(rd_files, spell_check_file_rd, dict = dict, macros = macros)