[R] How can I comment out whole chunks of code?

[rkevinburton at charter.net]

I know you don't want to adopt a new text editor but Tinn-R can 'comment' a block of code (inserting # in front of the selected lines.

Kevin
---- Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote: 
> On 24/09/2008 4:03 PM, Mark Na wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I know this has been discussed, but I haven't found an answer in the 
> > archives. Basically, I'd like to be able to comment out chunks of code 
> > (which may or may not be syntactically correct) without having to put 
> > the # symbol in front of each line (and, if possible, without having to 
> > adopt a new text editor).
> > 
> > My current R setup (XP) is very simple. I always have three windows 
> > open: the R console, my working directory, and a Notepad window 
> > containing my program. Adopting Tinn-R would probably solve this 
> > problem, but for simplicity I'd rather not move beyond Notepad (if 
> > possible).
> > 
> > Thanks for any help you can provide,
> 
> I think there is no solution that lives within your constraints.
> 
> If you keep syntactic correctness, you can wrap blocks in
> 
> if (FALSE) {
>   ...
> }
> 
> If you switch to a real editor, adding the # prefix to each line would 
> not be a problem.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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