[R] Comment blocks in R programs

Romain Francois rfrancois at mango-solutions.com
Wed Sep 20 17:49:44 CEST 2006


Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Try this:
>
> if (FALSE) {
> ... whatever ...
> }
>   

Problem is,
... whatever ...
must be syntactically correct to use that trick.

Why not using a text editor that does rectangular selection or 
commenting several lines at a time, there are many out there to propose 
that kind of feature.

Cheers,

Romain


> On 9/20/06, Joe Byers <joe-byers at utulsa.edu> wrote:
>   
>> All,
>>
>> Is there a way to add comment blocks in an R script other than using #
>> at the beginning of each line?  Or, is there anything like ndocs for C++
>> and the markup for Java that can generate documentation?
>>
>> This may be a bad question, but I have searched R documentation and
>> can't seem to find an Answer.  I have also looked at the R package
>> documentation mark up docs for help files but that was more than I wanted.
>>
>>
>> thank you for you help.
>> Joe
>>     

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