[R] Block comments in R?

[Barry Rowlingson]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

> 
> Commenting code out and providing documentation comments are easily
> done with a good editor, although R documentation comments really belong
> in files where help() can find them.

  R documentation comments belong in .Rd files at the moment, but how 
joyous would it be if they could be included in the .R files?

  Okay, this is all part of my incessant whining to make R more like 
Python, but I've found managing separate .Rd and .R files a pain. If .R 
files could have embedded documentation you'd have one source for code, 
documentation, tests etc. I did play about with this in the Splus days, 
attaching documentation strings to functions with attributes, but it was 
just kludgy without a proper mechanism.

  Is there an R 3.0 roadmap?

Barry