[R] multi line comment

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jean Eid wrote:

> Are there any plans to do multi line commenting? like /*...*/

This has been discussed on R-devel (the appropriate place!) in 2005.
Please see the archives at
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-January/031833.html

Short answer: No.
Slightly longer answer: you don't need it.

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