[Rd] Commenting conventions

Erik Iverson eriki at ccbr.umn.edu
Thu Jan 13 21:16:14 CET 2011



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



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