[Rd] Commenting conventions

[Erik Iverson]

dhinds at sonic.net wrote:
> This might be a dumb question, but I couldn't figure out how to find
> the answer: why is it that comments in R documentation files (i.e. in
> examples) typically start with a double hash (##) instead of a single
> hash?

See the second paragraph in section 7.5 for the likely answer.

http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Indenting